Far too many of us are living lives like the flicker of a candle rather than the blazing of the new day.

Dr. Tony Evans says when we seek God of fire is lit within us.

What you receive the call to salvation, God now gives you the call to life's purpose.

This is the alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, author, speaker, senior pastor of Oaklev Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas

and president of the Urban Alternative.

Lots of things can be mass-produced, but today Dr. Evans starts a series based on the idea that God builds one life at a time, each of us with our own special purpose on this planet.

Let's join him as he explains.

I don't know how many sign-filled watchers we have here today, but it broke all kinds of records as a TV sitcom.

What was interesting about sign-filled is that it was noted not to have a plot, and it went to the top of the charts.

They were analyzing why sign-filled was so popular, and it was concluded that sign-filled was popular because the folk watching it were in the same situation as a sitcom.

Plotless. No clue. Amelessly going from situation to situation. Sit calm.

Far too many of us are living lives like the flicker of a candle rather than the blazing of the new day sun.

Meandering. No brilliance. No significance.

Because there is no sense of ultimate purpose, destiny, or the word we're going to use in our series, calling.

You're calling. You're reading for B is your customized life purpose, which God has ordained for you and you alone to accomplish, which is designed to bring him greatest glory and the maximum expansion of his kingdom.

There are three things I want to say about this definition of calling, which has to do with your purpose for being. First of all, it is a created purpose.

Purpose calling is your reason for being. It's the reason why you were made. You were made to fulfill your calling.

A car is not fulfilling its calling. If it doesn't run. A piano is not fulfilling its calling. If all the strings are broke and there is no tune coming out, it's not fulfilling the purpose for which it was produced.

It's there, but it's not doing anything or certainly not doing its ordained thing.

To live life without purpose or calling is to be like the Dead Sea over in Israel. No life there. It's death.

Fish can't swim in it. You can't swim in it. You get the salt in your eyes. It'll burn you. It is a lifeless existence because it is not fulfilling its purpose.

Far too many of us are living Dead Sea kind of lives. Perpetual stagnation. No calling.

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