The most glorious reason you exist is for the proclamation of the glory of God to the ends of the world. And it's more than having a nice life.

Being a member of a church means realizing that we are responsible for helping the brothers and sisters around us to grow as disciples of Jesus. In the same way, they are responsible for helping us. We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.

I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

While the goal of the American dream is to make much of us, the goal of the gospel is to make much of God.

Satan's strategies to stop the church will ultimately serve to spread the church. And Satan's strategies to inflict earthly pain in your life will ultimately serve to increase eternal glory with your God; 'Light momentary affliction.'

When we realize we have the responsibility to teach the word, it changes everything about how we hear the Word.