Divine Direction

“What Should I Be Living For?”

Reflect on What You’ve Heard

1.  If you were an outsider looking in on your life, what would you think you are really bowling for? (i.e. people pleasing, status, fame, being a good parent, beauty, work achievement etc.)
2. What is the right lane of Christianity? What are the pins we should be going for?
3. Christians bowl in the wrong lane all the time, which lane is easiest for you to mistake for the real thing? (i.e. legalism, liberalism/progressive Christianity, and fun/success)
4. What do you need to do to switch lanes? How can you live differently this week to make that switch?

Pray it Out

God, Thank you for forgiving me, help me to treat others the way you have treated me–amen. 

Key Scriptures

• “Trust in the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.6 Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.” Proverbs 3:5-6​
• “Meanwhile, Saul was uttering threats with every breath and was eager to kill the Lord’s followers. So he went to the high priest. 2 He requested letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, asking for their cooperation in the arrest of any​ followers of the Way he found there. He wanted to bring them—both men and women—back to Jerusalem in chains.​” Acts 9:1-2
• “For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God’s glorious standard. ​24 Yet God, in his grace, freely makes us right in his sight. He did this through Christ Jesus when he freed us from the penalty for our sins. 25 For God presented Jesus as the sacrifice for sin.” Romans 3:23-25
• “God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.” Ephesians 2:8-9
• “Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God.” Romans 12:19a
• “But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!​” Galatians 5:22-23​

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