How Can I Discover My Purpose on Earth?
Ask the Pastor with J.D. Greear
J.D. Greear
4.8 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Have you ever been in the midst of some task-something lifegiving, challenging, and exciting all at once-and thought, “Man, it seems like I was made for this!”? What if that feeling wasn’t just a fleeting thought, but a picture of reality? What if God actually has given you a specific task, some way to reflect his kingdom?
In this episode of “12 Truths & A Lie,” Pastor J.D. teaches us what God thinks about our work. Many of us haven’t given that a lot of thought. What does God have to do with my job? Actually, quite a bit! Through your work, God can fulfill promises, display his redemption, and advance his mission.
Whether you’re a builder or a banker, a student, or a stay-at-home mom, you’ll learn the five ways you can approach your work from a uniquely Christian perspective.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to Ask Me Anything where Pastor J.D. Greer answers your questions. |
| 0:24.7 | I'm Matt Love, and we have got a bonus episode for you this week. |
| 0:29.8 | So go ahead and check this out. |
| 0:32.7 | Years ago, I heard a story about a man named Larry Walters who lived in California. |
| 0:37.6 | He was your average, ordinary California citizen, if there is such a thing. |
| 0:41.4 | But the story goes that one afternoon, Larry went out to the Army Navy surplus store. |
| 0:46.0 | He bought 75 used weather balloons. |
| 0:49.1 | He inflated them, and then he attached them to a lawn chair that he had secured to the back of his pickup truck. |
| 0:55.0 | Then with several friends watching, he climbed into the chair, he settled in, and he had a friend |
| 0:59.5 | untie the rope. He was hoping, a friend later said, to observe the neighborhood from a slightly |
| 1:05.1 | different angle and thereby gain a new perspective on his life. According to this story, |
| 1:09.9 | he took nothing with him, |
| 1:11.0 | except for a peanut butter sandwich, a six-pack of beer, and a fully loaded BB gun. |
| 1:17.1 | Two and a half hours later, the Los Angeles International Airport reported an unidentified |
| 1:22.8 | flying object in the skies above LAX at 16,547 feet. That is, what, three miles in the sky? |
| 1:33.1 | Lawnchair Larry, as he came to be known, now three miles into the sky and more than 100 miles |
| 1:39.0 | away from his original launch site. He was completely passed out. In fact, the pilot of the 737 who first spotted Larry |
| 1:45.8 | said, and I said, well, I see what looks like a perfectly still man sitting in a, is it a |
| 1:52.6 | lawn chair? I think he might be holding a rifle in a rescue stunt that would have made Nicholas Cage |
| 1:58.1 | proud. SWAT teams go up there by means of a helicopter. |
| 2:01.2 | They lassoed Larry. |
| 2:02.3 | They ferried him safely to the ground. |
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