Tuesday, January 03, 2006

Purpose?

Hey guys. I have a question that I would like to have your feedback on.

What is the purpose of life?

You can leave your answers as comments.

3 comments:

Anne Maria said...

My purpose of life is
1.to love the Lord with all my heart and my neighboor as myself by first receiving Gods love for me.
2.to see my neighboorhood transformed by the Holy Spirit
3.See the body of Christ connected and function like His one body (John 17), locally-nationally-among the nordic Countries-Europian-internationally
(my focus now is Norway and the Nordic countries)

SM said...

Ultimately, I guess the purpose of human existence was "to walk with God in the cool of the day" - which I take to mean live with and be loved by God.

Now, I'd say it's for us, together, to continually live with God in constant surrender to Him, so that He can, over a lifetime, re-create us (undoing the results of sin in our individual beings and our communities) into the kind of people who are capable of receiving, responding, and experiencing the relationship of love that we were originally intended for. The purpose of life now is to learn (together) to live life with God on His terms – and the “on His terms” part necessarily includes going out and inviting everyone else in.

Anonymous said...

Acho que o propósito da vida é servir a Deus. Fomos criados pro louvor dEle, e "dEle e por Ele são todas as coisas". Se vivemos, ou trabalhamos, ou seja lá o que fazemos, é tudo por causa dEle, porque Ele sustenta, porque Ele orienta...e tudo acontece para os fins que Ele determina. O mais legal disso tudo é saber que tudo existe por Ele, Ele é soberano, mas Seus atos são todos motivados pelo amor, porque Ele é amor. O que pode ser melhor do que servir a Alguém que é amor? :)