In our early years, we rarely give consideration to our legacy.

After all, life has too many demands to be concerned with how our daily decisions impact

the next generation.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall will challenge us to resist this passive position.

What you're about to hear was originally presented to students preparing for full-time

ministry at Dallas Theological Seminary.

In this address, Chuck challenged these seminarians to defy convention and begin charting their

future with the end in mind.

Chuck titled his message with a question, what will you pass on to others?

I want to begin by asking you a question.

Everything I have to say today will relate to the answer to this question.

But first, think about it.

Will you?

What are you leaving for the next generation?

What will you pass on to those who will outlive you?

The questions may seem a little irrelevant because you're young, you who are students,

and you have most of your life spread out before you.

Probably among the last things you think about would be those who will outlive you, but

there will be many.

And as you minister in the years to come, you will meet them, you'll serve them, and

you'll leave them with the lasting impressions that even your death will not erase.

I want to talk about those impressions.

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