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[Seed #4 Purpose]
This means that things like
chanting, meditation and yoga
seem to some of us to be pretty dry
compared with connecting with
a deeply personal God and to waking up
to a sense of authentic purpose.

The God of the Bible really does liberate

us from a life without purpose
in a way that is profound,
and can feel very
thrilling to many of us.

Has there been a time in your life when you

felt particularly close to God?

…If you’re drawn to

the idea of God being intensely personal,
or even if you’re just curious, we’d love
for you to visit us at our church!

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[Seed #4 Purpose] [Welcome]

In fact—the Bible calls for Jesus of Nazareth compared the afterlife
a complete redesign of our loyalties; to a king…
Jesus told His top disciples, sending his servants

"As the Father has loved me, to invite people

so have I loved you. to a dinner event.

Now remain in my love. The servants went “into the highways”

If you obey my commands, you will remain in and “gathered all whom they

my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's found—both bad and good.”

commands and remain in his love. (Matthew 22:10)

You are my friends if you do what I command. Some of us like the idea that both
I no longer call you servants, the bad and the good
because a servant does not know get invited
his master's business. to the afterlife.

Instead, I have called you friends, And it also sounds

for everything that I learned from my Father like an open invitation:
I have made known to you. " that agnostics & skeptics are
welcome to hear out his message
(John 15:9-10, 14-16)
—and judge for themselves.

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[Seed #1 Curse] [Seed #3 Love]

But His alarming message… That 3 Person existence suggests
is that He became a curse for humanity. God was then and remains
Jesus of Nazareth became a curse infinitely personal & relational.
to liberate those who are cursed.
But most people are unaware of the strong
Obviously—things that sound strange
evidence from science that God is not an
at first hearing
impersonal force but a personal God.
can turn out to be painfully accurate.
Like, we’re all made up of particles
So loyalty and love
that are in motion! And…
preceded the material world;
the beginning of time followed
the God of the Heavens is perfectly flawless —
pre-existing love and loyalty.
morally & spiritually.
And we are not flawless!
And that is what frees some
of us from life without purpose—
making our own attempts
at loyalty and love.

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[Seed #3 Love] [Seed #1 Curse]

… Jesus made several outrageous claims. Despite our moral & spiritual efforts,

He not only claimed that God sent Him to be flawless is to be perfect.

to bear the weight of our curse There’s a terrible “incompatibility”—

—to restore our compatibility with God— between the flawless God of the Heavens

He further claimed that whoever desires and us—in effect, acting as a curse.

His restoration can receive it by faith in Him.

And Jesus not only affirmed

But it poses a question. a judgment in the afterlife

assuming it’s true, what motivates —where our lack of flawlessness

God’s strange generosity? will have become permanent

—He claimed He

One of the reasons would be its Judge.

behind God’s expressive generosity,

is that even before He made the world, [So clearly… ]

He existed as 1 God in 3 Persons.

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[Seed #2 Life]
It’s important to put together
what Jesus was claiming, so you can
gauge whether it’s persuasive.
Bottom line:
He became a curse
when He was hung on a tree.
But He personally demolished the curse
with His resurrection.
He now claims to be the One who can be
trusted—to transfer us out of danger
with His own personal immortality.
The gift of eternal life
is Jesus’ resurrection somehow given as a gift.
And it’s the ultimate in true spiritual
inclusiveness and evenhandedness
because it is never earned
but always freely given.
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[Seed #2 Life]
By pouring His resurrection–life
into our hearts Jesus protects us
from an unseen threat.
He said,
“Whoever drinks of the water that
I shall give him will never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him
will become in him a fountain of water
springing up into everlasting life.”
(John 4:14)
“Whoever hears my word
and believes him who sent me
has eternal life and will not be judged
but has crossed over from death to life.”
(John 5:24)
“For this is the will of my Father,
that everyone who looks on the Son and
believes in Him should have eternal life,
and I will raise him up on the last day.”
(John 6:40)
So clearly…
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