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PART 1: WHAT ON EARTH AM I HERE FOR?

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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

1. If you responded to God by praying that simple prayer, congratulations.


Other in your church and many around the country are taking the same step
to receive Christ. If you did receive Christ today, sign and date your
commitment below. Let this page always serve as a reminder of what God did
in your life today. Take a risk and share your decision with someone before
you leave. They will celebrate your commitment with you.

This day, ___________________ (Write date here), I am re/committing my life


to Christ.

__________________________
Signature

2. In Ecclesiastes 1, Pastor Rick identified three consequences of not knowing


your purpose:
a. Life will seem tiresome
b. Life will seem unfulfilling
c. Life will seem uncontrollable
Which of these three do you most identify? Why?
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ
3. Paul had a clear understanding of God’s purpose in his life. He said, “I am
Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in
advance for us to do.
focusing all my energies on this one thing.” How would knowing God’s
purposes help you focus your life? How would knowing God’s purpose simplify
your life? — Ephesians 2:10 (NIV)

4. Ecclesiastes 3:11 says that God “has set eternity in the hearts of men.”
What do you think that verse means? What are some practical ways we can
live life here on earth in preparation for life in eternity?

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I. THE CONSEQUENCES OF NOT KNOWING YOUR PURPOSE II. THE BENEFITS OF KNOWING YOUR PURPOSE

1. Without knowing your purpose, life will seem _________________________. 1. Knowing the purpose of your life will give your life
_________________________.
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The sun rises and the sun sets and hurries back to where it rises. 6The
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wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one
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ever returning on its course. All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is thing I do;
never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. — Philippians 3:13a (NIV)
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All things are wearisome…

— Ecclesiastes 1:5-8a (NIV)


2. Knowing the purpose of your life will _________________________ your life.

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Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.
2. Without knowing your purpose, life will seem _________________________.

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— Philippians 3:13b (NIV)
The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. What
has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; 13a
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he
trusts in You.
— Ecclesiastes 1:8b-9a (NIV)
— Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)

3. Without knowing your purpose, life will seem _________________________.


3. Knowing the purpose of your life will _________________________.
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What is twisted cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted. 14
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me
— Ecclesiastes 1:15 (NIV) heavenward in Christ Jesus.
— Philippians 3:14 (NIV)

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He has also set eternity in the hearts of men…
— Ecclesiastes 3:11a (NIV)

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