“Intentional Living”
Part 3 – Invested Lives
NewSong Church 02/24/08
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**NOTE: THIS IS A CONCEPT OUTLINE FOR THIS MESSAGE. GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA ARE AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT THIS SERIES.
"how you invest your life is based on what you want to achieve in life"
Illust: Oprah’s Big Give or If I Had a Million Dollars
Investing in Life
• how you invest your life is formed by your life objectives
• what do we live for?
Areas We Invest In
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• Future
• Children
• Retirement
• Education
• Relationships
• Financial Planning
• Career
• Spirituality & Faith
Common Ground: We Invest in Our Future
• What we want to be determines how we live
• Our life goals dictate our investments
Living for the Need
• These areas are not unimportant
• But they are not the final reality
• At some point, all of these things come to an end
• If our objective is to achieve these things, we can do that successfully
• But it is possible to achieve these objectives and still miss the point of life
Living for the Goal
[slide – bold text]
“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose his soul?” - Jesus
Jesus Story: The Investment Project
Life Investment
Stewardship
We are God’s Workers
What Do We Live For?
Investing Our Lives
[slide – bold text in sequence]
• In God
• In Others
• In the Mission
• We need to be stewards of our lives
• But we must not confuse areas of stewardship with the final goal
• The final goal is to embrace and participate in God’s plan for you
Think: Determine God’s Way
Do: Live Carefully
Be: Embrace & Participate in God’s Plan
Intentional Living
• Carefully determine what pleases the Lord
• Be careful how you live
Communicating Mission
• Where is your life focused?
• In what areas are you embracing and participating in God’s reality?
• How will you invest in God’s plan?
• How will you intentionally live this week?
