Hi, this is Rick Warren. Did you know that the best gift you can give anybody is to bring them into a relationship with Jesus Christ?

And did you know that the best time to do that is at Christmas?

Here's what I want to challenge you to do. I want you to make a Christmas list of people.

Think of all the people who you know who don't know Jesus or who might know Jesus but don't go to church anywhere. And I want

you to start praying for them. And then I want you to invite those people you've prayed for

to come to a Christmas Eve or Christmas Day service at your church.

Hey everybody. Welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

Well, we're so glad you're here today.

Rick is going to finish up a message called The Greatest Gifts You'll Ever Get.

This is a powerful Christmas message about how God's love, grace, and purpose will bring you lasting hope and joy. So let's hear what Rick has to say.

God says I want to give you a new identity, a new ability, and number three, I want to give you a new

community. This is the third gift wrapped up in the big box of Jesus, a new community. God says, I'm going to give you a family,

a spiritual family, to support you in doing the right thing. You see, you weren't meant to go through

life all alone. You never were. You were meant to know God and you were meant to have a family

around you that supports you. We always change

better in a group than we do on our own. It's why most diets and most personal self-help plans

don't work because it's all about you and you don't have any spiritual family to support you.

The Bible says God created an entire universe because he wanted a family. Look at this verse,

Ephesians chapter one.

The Bible says, because of his love, remember it all comes back to God's love, God so loved

that he gave. Because of his love, God's unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into his own

family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ.

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