Recreate Church, Pastor Michael Shockley—Service, June 25, 2023

How to Win at Life Today, Pastor Michael is talking about life. How we are created for a purpose.  If we are not pursuing that purpose, everything else will never satisfy us. The win is in surrender.  Surrending to God.  What is that area of your life that you don’t want God to take control of?  What do you not want to let go of?   In our attempt to save our lives, we lose our lives.  If we don’t embrace God’s purpose, we lose on earth and in eternity.  We honestly have it backward. We feel that accumulating things, making money, and living large make us special.  It’s living for OURSELVES.   Living for yourself, is empty,  in the end.  It’s time to let it go. (CSB Disciple's Study Bible Notes) The keynote of the Christian life is surrender. To deny oneself is not a call to a colorless life. Rather it is a call to deny the baser nature and pursue the higher levels of ethical standards to which Jesus points. This paradox of finding life by losing it is open to the test of experience. Mature Christians attest to its validity. Verses can be found in Mark 8: 35-38. Scripture quotations marked CSB have been taken from the Christian Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2017 by Holman Bible Publishers. Used by permission. Christian Standard Bible® and CSB® are federally registered trademarks of Holman Bible Publishers.