Today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Jesus died for the church.

We should be deeply committed to it and very connected into it, not just a casual attender on the weekend, but involved and invested.

God has a body, and that is the locus, the center point of what he does on earth.

And if you and I understand that, like Paul, we'll figure out our role in it and we'll be deeply committed to it.

Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich.

You know, I think everyone wants to feel like they've succeeded in life,

but what does success even mean? Our world tends to point to fame, wealth, or accolades from peers as the measuring stick. But as believers, shouldn't we have a different metric? Today,

Pastor J.D. describes the biblical standard for a successful life and how we can truly

make our days count. It's a challenging message from our teaching series called The Whole Story.

Remember, if you've missed any part of the study, you can always catch up online at jd.grier.com.

But right now, let's dive on in. Here's Pastor J.D. sharing six defining characteristics of the

successful life. There are key moments in your life where you decide what's going to define the

rest of your life. What values and what principles are going to shape the way that you live.

Well, see, in Acts chapter 20, Paul is giving us a farewell speech

in which he summarizes what I think are the six values that Paul has built his life around.

He is saying goodbye to the church leaders in Ephesus where he spent the last three years.

As far as he knows, he's never going to see any of these guys again. He is headed from here to

Jerusalem and then from Jerusalem on to Rome, where Paul assumes he's never going to see any of these guys again. He is headed from here to Jerusalem

and then from Jerusalem on to Rome, where Paul assumes he's going to be martyred. This is his

farewell speech to them. Here's the question. If you were making a farewell speech,

if you were addressing the people that you had known and loved for most of your life and you had

...