Hello everybody and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

Now today we're continuing into the New Year and we're digging deeper into one of life's biggest questions,

Does My Life Really Matter?

In today's message, Rick's going to continue his powerful series,

Live Your Calling, What on Earth Am I Here For?

In it, you'll discover how living out God's purpose for your life

brings real meaning, direction, and joy no matter where you're starting from.

Let's get straight to Rick for the final part of a message entitled, called to be sent.

Now, when we talk about the peace plan, we talk about it in three dimensions.

Personal peace, local peace, and global peace.

And your life needs to be involved in all three of these.

You need to have a personal peace plan, a local peace plan, and a global peace plan. This is what it means to be called to be

sent. My personal peace plan is the ministry, my personal mission to the people in my life,

my family, my friends, my neighbors, and my coworkers. That's my personal mission to the people in my life, my family, my friends, my neighbors, and my

coworkers. That's my personal peace plan. How can I be a blessing to them in their lives? How can

I help them come to know God in a personal way? That's my personal plan. Local peace is what

we do in our small groups. When we go help the poor, when we go care for the sick, when we go educate people who are

illiterate, when we teach English as a second language, all of the hundreds of different

ministries we have in this church to help the hurts and the hang-ups and the habits of other people,

and we have hundreds of these ministries,

that's local peace. Global peace is your church's mission to the whole world. Now, Jesus didn't

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