Hello everybody and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

This is the Bible teaching ministry of Rick Warren.

Now today we're continuing into the New Year,

and we're digging deeper into one of life's biggest questions,

Does My Life Really Matter?

In today's message, Rick's going to continue his powerful series,

Live Your Calling, What on Earth Am I Here For? In it, you'll discover how living out God's

purpose for your life brings real meaning, direction, and joy no matter where you're starting

from. All right? Now, here's part two of a message called

Why God Made You. God put you on this planet for 80 years, at the hundred years of most,

to practice what you're going to do in heaven. He wants you to practice here. This life is

preparation for the next. And one of the things you're going to do in

heaven is love God. So he wants you to practice here. He wants you to learn how to love him here.

He wants you to learn to worship here because we're going to worship in heaven. And the other thing,

we're going to fellowship in heaven. We're going to love each other in the family of God. That's called fellowship. What's he wants you to do? He wants you to practice here. He wants you to learn how to love God and how to

love other people here on earth. So when you get to heaven, you're not a dofus. You know exactly

what to do. So write this down. The second purpose of my life, what on earth am I here for,

is to learn to love others. Learn to love others. And the place you learn to love others is in

God's family. The church is the laboratory for learning how to love. You don't learn how to love in business.

You don't learn how to love in school. You don't learn how to love competing with other people in sports.

The church, God's family, is the laboratory for learning real love.

Now I've heard people say this. Well, I don't really need the church. All I need to do is

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