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Live Free with Josh Howerton

Missing the True Mission | Ep. 89 | Thursday June 8, 2023

Live Free with Josh Howerton

Lakepointe Church

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

2.4706 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

With a "Life For God" mentality, we can quickly focus more on scoring points or winning at Bible Jeopardy than the true gift of getting to know God. Becoming so focused on mission and ministry can turn good things into a god. Pastor Mike reminds us today that, as believers, our worth is in the faithful work of Christ, not in working for God. For more information, visit lakepointe.church/dailydrive

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning in to today's daily drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your morning drive.

0:08.7

When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to change.

0:15.3

For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

0:20.7

For more digital content to feed your faith, visit lakepoint.combe.

0:25.1

And now let's dive in to today's devotional.

0:30.2

Hey, what's up, everybody?

0:31.2

Thanks for joining the Daily Drive podcast where we just try to unpack some wisdom, some truth,

0:35.5

some hope from God's word, just a little bit each weekday.

0:38.3

My name is Mike Pro.

0:39.8

And, man, I'm so honored you spent a few minutes with us today.

0:42.5

And the goal of being in God's Word is not to, like, score some points from Him, or to be able to smoke somebody in the game of Bible Jeopardy.

0:49.8

It's to get to know Him.

0:51.2

And that's simply what we're trying to do. In the last few days,

0:54.8

we've been talking about five postures that people take in relating to God. And we're using five

1:00.0

propositions to describe those different ways. And we got this framework from a book, an excellent

1:05.1

book called With by Sky Jahani. I'd recommend you grab it. It is so good. But the five

1:09.9

different postures are

1:10.9

these life under God where we see God is this demanding being that's just waiting

1:16.2

for us to step out of line so he can drop the hammer it's a life of insecurity

1:20.1

hiding pretending guilt shame and fear man it is a heavy way to live and then we talked

1:27.4

about life over God.

1:29.7

This is the view that basically says there is no God.

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