"A Life That Matters" (John 17: 1-5, 20-26)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This year, we're examining the Gospel of John to learn about the words and work of Jesus.What would you do if you only had 24 hours left on earth? When every minute counts, you wouldn’t waste time, you wouldn’t waste words. We would think that the way Jesus spends his time and his words during this period would show us what is most important to him.  So its amazing to realize that, Approaching the most difficult 24 hours of his life, Jesus prays. The good news of this prayer is that the glorious life we long for, God has delivered to us in Jesus. It was prayed for, and paid for, 2000 years ago. And Jesus wants us to know how to enjoy it right now.QUOTES & LINKS“Christian brotherhood is not an ideal which we must realize; it is rather a reality created by God in Christ in which we may participate. The more clearly we learn to recognize that the ground and strength and promise of all our fellowship is in Jesus Christ alone, the more serenely shall we think of our fellowship and pray and hope for it.”— Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “Taking hold of the glory of the future transforms your sense of shame now. A settled sense of the security of the future soothes your fear of death now. A growing sense of identity as a citizen of heaven changes how you see yourself now. Truly taking in the love relationship we’re going to enjoy forever warms our hearts toward Christ now.” ― Nancy GuthrieThe biggest barriers to effective evangelism according to the prayer of Jesus are not so much outdated methods, or inadequate presentations of the gospel, as [they are] realities like gossip, insensitivity, jealousy, backbiting, "root of bitterness', failure to appreciate others, self-preoccupation, greed, selfishness and every other form of lovelessness. These are the squalid enemies of effective evangelism which render the gospel fruitless and send countless thousands into eternity without a Savior.” — Bruce Milne C.S. Lewis, “The Weight of Glory” (audio recording)