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🗓️ 20 August 2022
⏱️ 115 minutes
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0:00.0 | All right. Welcome to the Friday, Q&A. The first question today comes in from Gabriel |
0:09.3 | C who asks, as Christians, what is the purpose of our lives? And I want to tackle this thought |
0:19.0 | fully, this first question. Well, you guys are loading. I see the chat going berserk over |
0:23.0 | there. You're loading your questions. I'm going to be taking all 20 of them or at least 19 |
0:27.4 | other than the first one from the live chat today and answering yours. And then after a |
0:32.3 | couple of hours after the stream, we'll put timestamps down below so you guys can navigate |
0:35.6 | to the questions that you find most useful for you. The whole agenda is just to make |
0:39.3 | the content as usable for you as possible. And so that's what we're doing. So I'm pastor |
0:44.6 | Mike Winger here in Southern California. And I think there was something else I was going |
0:51.8 | to mention, but this escapes my mind at the moment. So Gabriel's question is, as Christians, |
0:57.2 | what is the purpose of our lives? I think that actually what I can say is that what I'm |
1:00.8 | going to answer right now for Christians is, I believe, the purpose of our lives for |
1:05.8 | all people, whether they are Christian or not. This is the actual purpose of their life. |
1:11.1 | So like from it, from a, from a standpoint where there is no God, not that everybody |
1:17.4 | is not a Christian believes there's no God. I'm not saying that. But from the standpoint |
1:20.5 | where there is no God, there is effectively no transcendent purpose for our lives. You |
1:26.6 | can have self-determined purposes. I'm going to purpose to do this or that. But there's |
1:31.0 | no way to measure whether that's your real purpose, like your creative purpose or not. |
1:36.3 | You could think of the analogy of a hammer. If I make a hammer, it's designed to hammer |
1:42.2 | nails in among other things. So its purpose is to hammer in nails, pull them out, do that |
1:47.8 | sort of thing. That's its actual purpose because I have intent when I made it. But let's |
1:53.0 | say that something very much like a hammer just sort of accidentally fell together in |
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