Hello everybody and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

We're so excited that you've joined us today as we continue in this powerful series,

how the church meets your deepest needs.

Together, we're uncovering the joy and strength that comes from being a part of God's family.

Now let's get over to Rick for part one of a message called How Worshiping With Others Changes

You.

God has five purposes for your life, and he designed his church to fulfill those five

purposes in your life, to help you fulfill those purposes.

And today we're going to look at worship, and how worship, particularly worshiping with other people,

changes and transforms you. You know, I was thinking today that one of the many realities of life

that atheists have to come up with an explanation for is why

do human beings naturally desire to worship? I mean, we're hardwired for worship. If you don't

worship God, you're going to worship something. But the amazing thing is, all around the world,

in every single culture, people worship God in different ways,

in different styles, and not even in the same belief systems. But we're hardwired for worship.

Now, that certainly isn't something, a factor of evolution, because it's not necessary for survival.

So why is it that people automatically have a desire to know God, to know something greater than themselves?

You know, in the world, there are about 600 million Buddhists in the world.

600 million.

There are about 800 million Hindus in the world.

There are about 1.4 billion Muslims in the world. There are about 15 million Jews in the world.

Of course, so many were killed in the Holocaust, and that shrank the propagation of the Jewish faith.

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