Standalone: Life Before The Plan

Guest teacher and author Chuck Bomar joins us to address a question Christians have asked for centuries: "God, what is your will for my life?" Looking at John 15:1-5, Chuck flips the question: instead of asking "What is your will for my life?" — what if we asked, "What is your life for my will?" Jesus doesn't hand us a plan to decode; he gives us an image — he is the vine, we are the branches. Before the plan comes the life. In this sermon, Chuck unpacks three things this image tells us about grace: 1. Grace dethrones self — you are not the source. 2. Grace resurrects what is dead — it doesn't reward your faithfulness. 3. Grace forms the life God intended — it doesn't improve the life we've curated. Plus Chuck's own story of 11 homes and 7 cities, and the line that lands hard: "God wastes remarkably little."