Searching for Your Purpose . . .

Our worship service today included a short video of street interviews with 20- and 30-something Americans. The interviewer asked all of them, “What is your purpose,” or “do you have a purpose.” Responses ranged from “just being happy, having fun, and living one day at a time” from the 20-somethings, to “getting through life without killing anyone and being happy” from the 30-somethings. Folks in the congregation laughed, and applauded the one young man who said he was a Christian. He never really answered the interviewer’s question either, but he got audience points for saying he was a believer. At least he seemed to know that he should have a purpose larger than his own gratification.