Meaning, Purpose, or Survival?

Opening eyes, turning people from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, and helping people take their place among those who believe in Jesus is a challenge and an honor. We might shy away from such a high challenge. But here is God's calling through Paul in his letter to the church in Corinth. Written 5 or 6 years before these events before Agrippa.  Jesus died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him who for their sake died and was raised (2 Corinthians 5:15).  Martin Luther wrote about it this way: Jesus...redeemed me...so that I may be his own and live under him in his kingdom and serve him. Such a life - not living for ourselves, living under Christ, serving him in whatever vocation to which we are called - is much more than surviving. That is the abundant life. That is thriving.    Thrive, by Casting Crowns