B.I.O. - Practice #3: Be On Mission 24/7, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 12 December 2024
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Did you know The Purpose Driven Life is one of the best-selling books of the last century? What makes it so impactful? In this program, Chip dives into humanity’s profound quest to answer the question, "Why am I here?" Don’t miss how our purpose is deeply intertwined with God's divine calling for us to live on mission 24/7.
Main Points Practice # 3 – To Be On Mission 24/7I. Three facts about us who placed our faith in Jesus Christ:
- We have a new standing before God - Romans 5:1
- We receive the Holy Spirit and are in community - Romans 8:15
- We are given a new assignment to be on mission - Matthew 4:19
- Luke 19:10 and Mark 10:45
- He had compassion on the multitudes - Matthew 9:36
- He spoke the truth in love - John 3
- He showed grace & acceptance without compromising truth - John 4 and Matthew 9:10-17
- He boldly declared the gospel despite opposition - John 10
V. God Has Given Us a Supernatural Message of Reconciliation - 2 Corinthians 5:14-21
- Motivation: Christ’s love compels us.
- Mission: Live for Him who died for us.
- Perspective: View others as God’s creation, not from a worldly perspective.
- Role: Be ambassadors of reconciliation.
- Our Calling: We are His workmanship - Ephesians 2:10
VII. Increasing your “On Mission” Impact:
- Take your assignment seriously.
- Build relational bridges intentionally.
- Demonstrate your concern specifically.
- Share the message boldly.
- Pray for God to work powerfully.
- Give your time and money generously.
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | The best-selling book in the last 100 years other than the Bible is the purpose-driven |
| 0:06.7 | life. |
| 0:07.9 | Over 30 million copies, translated in scores of languages. |
| 0:12.8 | Why? |
| 0:13.8 | Because we all long to know what's my purpose. |
| 0:16.9 | Why am I here? |
| 0:18.2 | And today, we're going to help you answer that question. |
| 0:21.4 | You don't want to miss it. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:30.6 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible |
| 0:35.1 | teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:36.8 | And we're nearing the end of his newest series, Bio, three essential practices to becoming more like Jesus. |
| 0:42.7 | For the past several programs, we've covered the first two practices, which are the B and the I in the Word Bio, |
| 0:49.5 | coming before God daily and doing life in community. |
| 0:54.0 | So if you're ready, here's Chip to dive into the |
| 0:56.1 | final habit we can learn from Jesus' life being on mission 24-7. You may not know it, but my |
| 1:03.8 | background, my dream was to be a major college basketball coach. So my undergraduate and graduate |
| 1:09.7 | work was in education and psychology. |
| 1:11.6 | And that's provided an interesting background as it began to study the life of Jesus, |
| 1:15.6 | what he taught and what he practiced. And here's the thing that just amazes me about |
| 1:20.6 | Jesus' teaching and his practices. He goes to the very core, the heart of mankind. |
| 1:26.6 | In other words, those big questions like, why am I here and who am I? |
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