The Good Life
Tim Melton
John 10:10
Take a moment to think about the following questions.
A. When you think about your life are you happy with how things are going?
B. Would you say that you are living the good life?
C. If not, what would you need to add, remove or change about your present life to live the good life?
D. From where do you get your definition of ''the good life?''
E. Would you say your definition lines up more with the world's definition of ''the good life'' or the Bible's definition of ''the good life?''
In John 10:10 Jesus said, ''The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.'' Jesus is the source of the truly ''good life.'' Before we look at scripture's idea of the ''good life'' let's think about the world's.
A story is told of a large, multinational company that was looking for cheap labor and large profits. The company built a factory near a small, poor village in an impoverished country. They hired the villagers to work in the factory. The first couple of months everything went well, but after the fourth month fewer villagers were coming to work each day. By the sixth month almost all the villagers had stopped working. Frustrated and confused the supervisor from the factory went into the village to find his employees and see what had happened. Their answers went something like this, ''We made enough money to buy what we needed. Why should we keep working?'' The company thought about it and came up with a strategy. They started sending catalogs and advertisements into the small village. Eventually all the villagers came back to work because they had looked at the catalogs, become discontented with their lives, and now had become aware of all of the things that they supposedly ''needed.''
The same is happening to us today. The meaning of ''need'' is being re-defined and it is pushing contentment farther and farther out of our reach. It is as if someone h ...
Tim Melton
John 10:10
Take a moment to think about the following questions.
A. When you think about your life are you happy with how things are going?
B. Would you say that you are living the good life?
C. If not, what would you need to add, remove or change about your present life to live the good life?
D. From where do you get your definition of ''the good life?''
E. Would you say your definition lines up more with the world's definition of ''the good life'' or the Bible's definition of ''the good life?''
In John 10:10 Jesus said, ''The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.'' Jesus is the source of the truly ''good life.'' Before we look at scripture's idea of the ''good life'' let's think about the world's.
A story is told of a large, multinational company that was looking for cheap labor and large profits. The company built a factory near a small, poor village in an impoverished country. They hired the villagers to work in the factory. The first couple of months everything went well, but after the fourth month fewer villagers were coming to work each day. By the sixth month almost all the villagers had stopped working. Frustrated and confused the supervisor from the factory went into the village to find his employees and see what had happened. Their answers went something like this, ''We made enough money to buy what we needed. Why should we keep working?'' The company thought about it and came up with a strategy. They started sending catalogs and advertisements into the small village. Eventually all the villagers came back to work because they had looked at the catalogs, become discontented with their lives, and now had become aware of all of the things that they supposedly ''needed.''
The same is happening to us today. The meaning of ''need'' is being re-defined and it is pushing contentment farther and farther out of our reach. It is as if someone h ...
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