Hello this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

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All right hey we're in a great book of the Bible called Romans. If you've got a Bible, go to Romans chapter 15,

and as you're finding your place, it's really interesting because God made us and God is so great and so large and so powerful,

there's something in us that just wants to be connected to something bigger than us,

to have our lives make a difference, to make an impact, to leave a legacy.

For some people this leads them to invest all their time and energy in a company.

For others they get really motivated politically. For some folks this is where you pick up your

hobby or your favorite sports team go sons and pray for the diamond backs too if God could

raise the dead that's the only hope that the diamond backs have.

And what happens is we're always looking for someone or something to sort of give our time

and our money and our energy to, to invest in, to contribute to, to make a difference, to make the world a better place.

And that's because God made us to be part of his mission on the earth.

For the Christian, we give our best time and energy and money to the church, which is the

outpost of God's kingdom on the earth. And when he stopped to think about it, the

existence of the church and even what we're doing just gathering here as a

church family, it really is quite incredible and some of

you may have been going to church for a long time or you may not think about how the

church of Jesus Christ came into existence but it's really one of the greatest stories in the history of the world.

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