Don't Waste Your Life: Preparing for 40 Days of Purpose
Pastor Phil Winfield
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National Simulcast
What On Earth Am I Here For?
Pastor Rick Warren
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Week 1: What On Earth Am I Here For?
Pastor Phil Winfield
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Week 2: Worship: I Was Created For God's Pleasure
Pastor Phil Winfield
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Week 3: Fellowship: I Was Formed For God's Family
Song: Circle of Friends (Ladies Ensemble)
Pastor Phil Winfield
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Week 4: Discipleship: You Were Created To Become Like Christ
Pastor Phil Winfield
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Week 5: Ministry: You Were Shaped To Serve
Pastor Phil Winfield
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Week 6: Mission: I Was Made For A Mission
Pastor Phil Winfield
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How To Avoid The Spiritual Yo-Yos
Pastor Phil Winfield
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Recommended Reading
The Purpose Driven Life
by Pastor Rick Warren
Pastor of Saddleback Church, a Southern Baptist mega-church in southern California with weekly attendance of more than 15,000, Warren now applies his highly successful "purpose-driven" framework, developed in the best-seller The Purpose-Driven Church, to individual experience. The same principles Warren has taught to thousands of pastors to help churches be healthy and effective can also drive lives, he says. The book argues that discerning and living five God-ordained purposes-worship, community, discipleship, ministry and evangelism-is key to effective living. His 40 short chapters are intended to be read over 40 days' time, giving readers small pieces of his purpose-discovering program to chew on. Warren certainly knows his Bible. Of 800-plus footnotes, only 18 don't refer to Christian Scripture. He deliberately works with 15 different Bible translations, leaning heavily on contemporary translations and paraphrases, as an interesting way of plumbing biblical text. The almost exclusively biblical frame of reference stakes out the audience niche for this manual for Christian living. It's practical yet paradoxically abstract, lacking the kind of real-life examples and stories that life-application books usually provide in abundance. The book has flaws editing might have fixed. People are quoted without being identified, and subheads simply repeat lines of text, which tends to make the prose sound too simple. This book is not for all, but for those needing a certain kind of scriptural rock, it is solid.
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