Set Free: For a Purpose

Andrew Lay - March 1, 2026

"You are saved by God’s grace because of your faith. This salvation is God’s gift. It’s not something you possessed. It’s not something you did that you can be proud of. Instead, we are God’s accomplishment, created in Christ Jesus to do good things. God planned for these good things to be the way that we live our lives. So now you are no longer strangers and aliens. Rather, you are fellow citizens with God’s people, and you belong to God’s household. As God’s household, you are built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. The whole building is joined together in him, and it grows up into a temple that is dedicated to the Lord. Christ is building you into a place where God lives through the Spirit." - Ephesians 2:8-10, 19-22 (CEB)

"Know this: It is God who made us, and it was not we ourselves. We are God’s people” – Psalm 100:3

“______________” comes from the Greek word poiēma which means, “that which has been created.”

"We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God.” - Os Guinness

“All baptized Christians are called to a new vocation, the vocation to proclaim to others the good news of Jesus.” - Henri Nouwen

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“What you do in the present – painting, singing, sewing, praying, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor – will last into God's future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly. They are part of building for God's kingdom. Every act of love, gratitude, and kindness; every work of art or music; every minute spent teaching a child; every act of care and nurture, for one's fellow human beings or for that matter one's fellow nonhuman creatures; every prayer, every deed that builds up the church, or embraces holiness – all of this will find its way, through the resurrecting power of God, into the new creation that God will one day make.” - N.T. Wright