WORKSHEET – Finding your purpose – PART 2

For we are God’s , created in Christ Jesus to do , which God prepared in for us to do.

Ephesians 2:10

• PURPOSE #1: Christ
• PURPOSE #2: Christlikeness
• PURPOSE #3:
• PURPOSE #4: The
• PURPOSE #5: The Great

“Calling is something you unearth.You excavate. You dig out.”
– John Mark Comer. “The Garden City”

—TRY STUFF.

“The one who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds .”

Ecclesiastes 11:4

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a ”

— Lao Tzu

“In all effort there is profit, but tends only to poverty.”
Proverbs 14:23

Actively Experiment To Find Your .
No matter your age, keep a sense of child-like curiosity
high. IF something doesn’t work out, call it an “experiment”
not a failure.

Actively Experiment To Find Your .
The vast majority of us will come to this greater clarity about our calling in endless cycles of experimenting, confusion, reflecting and seeing some new light!

There May Be To Your Purpose.
Some callings may last for a other callings for a .
Write what we discover in not .
This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It’s adventurously expectant, greeting

God with a childlike, “ ”?

– Eugene Peterson’s paraphrase of Romans 8:15–17.

EXPOSE YOURSELF TO .
The words of Nehemiah:

… Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem. They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.” When I these things, I sat down and . For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
Nehemiah 1:1–4

A. Ask
B. to needs
C. Feel the
D. This often leads to

I Jerusalem, and after staying there three days… By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.
Nehemiah 1:11,13–14

What in the world can I heal, change, upgrade, or leave better than I found it? Which parts of the population am I poised to ?
(i) poverty
(ii) threats.
Unemployment, artificial intelligence going awry, the spread of further killer viruses, climate change, the possibility of genocide and military
dictatorships, the threat of being controlled through surveillance, and the breaching of information security. Pollution.
(iii) problems.

The violation of the rights of children, the needless loss of species, deforestation, the shortage of fresh water, substance abuse, the tragedy of those in poor parts of the world who suffer or die from curable or manageable sickness and parasites, divisive political systems, self-sabotaging economic policies, ineffective administration systems, gross inequality, corruption in government, crime, gender inequality.
Surely, God will call some of us to help drive these things back to the gates of hell from whence they come?
(iv) problems.
Health care, mental health, breakdown of family units, the addiction to technology, the loss of connectedness to each other and our very own souls in an overbusy and materialistic world.

The does not constitute the .
We learn this from Jesus:

That evening after sunset the people brought to Jesus all the sick and demon-possessed.The whole town gathered at the door, and Jesus healed many who had various diseases. He also drove out many demons, but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was.
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Simon and his companions went to look for him, and when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!”
Jesus replied, “Let us go somewhere else — to the nearby villages — so I can preach there also. That is why I have come.” So he traveled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons.
Mark 1:32-39:

QUICK RECAP:
1. Experiment — try stuff.
2. Expose yourself to real needs.