Introduction
Purpose
One way to state our purpose for living is this: Our purpose in life is to seek and allow God’s continuing creation in our hearts and through our lives in the world. God’s continuing creation in our hearts builds up hearts of love. God’s continuing creation through our lives in the world builds up shalom - a Hebrew word for which there is no direct, English equivalent. It contains the concepts of peace, justice, harmony, balance, health, rightness. God wants to create love in our hearts and shalom in the world. Through God’s sovereign will he has chosen, in many ways, to limit himself to what we will allow him to create in our hearts and in the world through our lives. It is our purpose,therefore, to seek God’s continuing creation and to allow God to work in our hearts and through our lives in the world.
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