If you are around California Baptist University long enough, you will hear the phrase \u201clive your purpose\u201d quite often.<\/p>\n
CBU\u2019s slogan inspires satisfaction and confidence. It reminds us that we have a purpose in our lives \u2014 one that God created for us.<\/p>\n
Since I am in my college phase right now, it is more difficult to look at my life holistically and understand the purpose God has created me for. When I was in high school looking for colleges, I would ask God, \u201cWhere is it that you want me to go?\u201d I wanted to make sure that I went to the college that God intended for me to go, because surely that had to aid my purpose in life. Well, it is a good thing I did come to CBU. Not only has it been a great experience and inspiring academic atmosphere, but it has taught me a lot about the purpose for my life.<\/p>\n
Dr. Bruce Stokes, professor of anthropology and behavioral sciences\u00a0and dean of the School of Behavioral Sciences,\u00a0and Dr. Nathan Lewis, professor of psychology\u00a0and director of the graduate program in counseling ministry, have instilled in me the way to interpret God\u2019s will for His people. Sometimes these two professors like to modify the school\u2019s slogan to say \u201clive His<\/em> purpose,\u201d because we as Christians can misunderstand what the phrase means at times.<\/p>\n God created us in order to live holy and righteous lives before Him, loving others and following His law so that we may have satisfaction and joy in our lives.\u00a0 Sometimes Christians take the \u201cdestiny\u201d approach to Christianity and believe that Christians are \u201cdestined\u201d to do such and such thing. Then if we do not do that thing we missed out on our purpose. I am glad that it does not exactly work that way. God does bring opportunities and people into our lives, and these things can change our lives in tremendous ways. But God may or may not tell us in plain words \u201cTake the Christian doctrine class this semester\u201d or \u201cRoom with Veronica this year.\u201d\u00a0 Living our purpose is so much more than that.<\/p>\n If we narrowed our purpose to such minute things, we would miss out on the purpose that God has really called us to. God has a great calling for all Christians. His purpose is to make disciples of all nations and be a part of a universal church devoted to making His name great. Christians can do this in so many ways that it is really an adventure.<\/p>\n Coming to CBU and being a part of the community here is a way that you can make disciples and be a part of His church.\u00a0 But you can live your (His) purpose, wherever and everywhere you go. Friends, live your purpose!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are around California Baptist University long enough, you will hear the phrase \u201clive your purpose\u201d quite often. CBU\u2019s slogan inspires satisfaction and confidence. It reminds us that we have a purpose in our lives \u2014 one that God created for us. Since I am in my college phase right now, it is more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audrey-hanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.calbaptist.edu\/lancerdiaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}