Live With Intent: Invested Lives Series

“Intentional Living”

Part 3 – Invested Lives

NewSong Church 02/24/08

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**NOTE: THIS IS A CONCEPT OUTLINE FOR THIS MESSAGE. GRAPHICS AND MULTIMEDIA ARE AVAILABLE TO SUPPORT THIS SERIES.

"how you invest your life is based on what you want to achieve in life"

Illust: Oprah’s Big Give or If I Had a Million Dollars

Investing in Life

• how you invest your life is formed by your life objectives

• what do we live for?

Areas We Invest In

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• Future

• Children

• Retirement

• Education

• Relationships

• Financial Planning

• Career

• Spirituality & Faith

Common Ground: We Invest in Our Future

• What we want to be determines how we live

• Our life goals dictate our investments

Living for the Need

• These areas are not unimportant

• But they are not the final reality

• At some point, all of these things come to an end

• If our objective is to achieve these things, we can do that successfully

• But it is possible to achieve these objectives and still miss the point of life

Living for the Goal

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“What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet lose his soul?” - Jesus

Jesus Story: The Investment Project

Life Investment

Stewardship

We are God’s Workers

What Do We Live For?

Investing Our Lives

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• In God

• In Others

• In the Mission

• We need to be stewards of our lives

• But we must not confuse areas of stewardship with the final goal

• The final goal is to embrace and participate in God’s plan for you

Think: Determine God’s Way

Do: Live Carefully

Be: Embrace & Participate in God’s Plan

Intentional Living

• Carefully determine what pleases the Lord

• Be careful how you live

Communicating Mission

• Where is your life focused?

• In what areas are you embracing and participating in God’s reality?

• How will you invest in God’s plan?

• How will you intentionally live this week?