My purpose and my mission

What is your mission?

This question reminds me that after studying Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose Driven Life, I planned to write a life purpose statement. Writing this detailed statement will take some time, but Warren asked five questions to get me started:

• What will be the center of my life?
• What will be the community of my life?
• What will be the character of my life?
• What will be the contribution of my life?
• What will be the communication of my life?

The five C questions tie into the five purposes in Warren’s book:

• You were planned for God’s pleasure. Worship.
• You were formed for God’s family. Fellowship.
• You were created to become like Christ. Discipleship.
• You were shaped for serving God. Service.
• You were made for a mission. Mission.

The last bullet point is the mission of a believer – to share the Good News with nonbelievers.

How will I share Jesus with people who don’t know him?

One way is teaching Sunday school to kids in kindergarten through the fifth grade. After I retire, I may volunteer at the new teen center my church established this year.

A second way is through this blog. I am an introverted woman of deep faith who engages in spiritual introspection, and I share my thoughts in the blogosphere.

I believe the ultimate purpose of my life is to worship God with all my heart, mind, and soul and to love others as myself. This is the reason for my being, and it drives my mission.

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”

Matthew 22: 36-40