Message: “Pentecost: Back to the Wild” from Ross Stackhouse

Message at 32:00. What is the main goal of being a Christian? Is it to stop living the wrong way and start living the right way? To be a better person? To be a more loving person? Is it to avoid God’s judgment in the afterlife? While there isn’t one single right answer to this question, one of the ultimate goals and hopes of becoming a Christian is to be spiritual–specifically to “live life by the Spirit” as one saint said. The goal is to be filled with the same Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead and to learn to be guided and changed by the Spirit daily. When we do this, we’ll live better; we’ll be more loving; we’ll live more in our purpose and gifts. But we won’t do it by performing or acting. We’ll do it organically, authentically, genuinely from the inside out, from a heart that has been changed.

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