Getting in Alignment -- Part 1 - YouTube Snowmass Chapel

Sermon By Dr. Robert de Wetter Recorded at Snowmass Chapel Sunday, June 30, 2013 Sermon Notes - Getting in Alignment -- Part 1 1. Like a truck driving down the road with a bent frame, many people feel out of alignment in life. This sense of experienced in a variety of ways, including, "I love a lot about my life, but down deep, I sometimes wonder, is there more?" Or. "I work at my job day after day after day and it feels like I am not getting anywhere." Or. "When I am honest with myself, I am not sure things are as they should be." Or. "No matter how hard I try, so many of my relationships are messed up. It could. It should be better." Or. "I am retired. I am having a great time. But when I'm out on the course playing with friends, there is this feeling of a gaping hole." Or. "I am 28 years old and I don't feel a sense of purpose." Or. "I've got a gnawing feeling I can't get my hands around." 2. Jesus spent a lot of his life with people who felt these ways and who were open to something beyond themselves. 3. There are three basic ways to look at life. Everything is random and there is no purpose. Create your own purpose and it is all ok as long as I don't offend you or get in your way. There is a bigger story and we are each created by God to be part of that story. Which story line you live by affects everything about your life. 4. Book being read by leadership team is titled, "Unfinished: Believing is only the Beginning" by Richard Stearns. Richard states that the "meaning, purpose and significance of our lives are found only by aligning our lives with God's purposes." 5. If you believe you are part of God's story and actively and daily pursue what this means, you are in for a realignment of who you are, every relationship you have, how you spend your time, how you spend your money, how you see things, what you care about and don't, and a razor sharp sense of alignment and purpose whether you are 18 or 85. 6. A challenge for many Christians is that we often stop at believing. As Stearns writes, "Many people see Christianity as a transaction with God to re-ceive forgiveness and get a ticket to heaven. Lots of people go to church now and then, pray occasionally, and then go back to the party." Or as I say, there are those who go for an hour to church, leave, and go back to being and doing who they were before they came. 7. Barna Group story. Only one in seven Christians walks the talk and is Christ like in both attitude and action. 8. But God calls us to change the world and to build God's kingdom wherever we find ourselves. 9. Ultimately, we are here to bring about the Kingdom of God, which is the vision and the dream that God has for this planet right now. When we get clear on our part, everything changes in our lives, our relationships, our inner sense of being, how we see things, how we spend our resources and our time. 10. Focus of next week is what God's kingdom looks like and ways in which we join God in building God's kingdom wherever we find ourselves.

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