Intro to Loving God & Others, Part 1 (TMF:436)

Monday, June 27, 2016
Peace to Live By: Intro to Loving God & Others, Part 1 (TMF:436) - Daniel Litton
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       Back when the United States use to fly Shuttle missions, as we all know the setup was that the Shuttle would go up into space and communicate back to earth with Mission Control. Now, before the astronauts went into space, they obviously had to go through a great deal of training to know how to do everything they were expected to do. Their ability to get along in space was critically important, and they had to support and help each other. But the goal of the astronauts in getting into space was to do whatever the mission objectives required. It was their responsibility to communicate with Mission Control and to follow any instructions provided to them during communication. And it wasn’t that the astronauts didn’t want to do this. After all, they had agreed to be astronauts. They would want to please the people on the ground because they were the people working with them for their common good. I think living the Christian life is a very similar setup to how astronauts worked with Mission Control. But our goal as Christians is to learn everything from God’s Word we possibly can, so that we know what is pleasing to God. The Bible is our training in righteousness (2 Timothy 3:16, 17). And it’s also true that as we live the Christian life, we are on mission. Except our mission isn’t in space; our mission is here on the earth.