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At Grace Family we focus our worship on Sunday to impact our lives every other day of the week as well. We also believe no one is perfect but everyone is welcome to worship God with us. So, no matter where you're from, what you've done, or what your week has been like, let's worship God and learn from His word together today.

Why do we exist?

Existence is hard.

Some days it feels easier to not exist

You exist because God thought of you and thought you were a good idea.

Genesis 1:26

"26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings[a] in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth,[b] and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

You were created to reflect your creator.

John 17:20-21

"20 “I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me."

No other creation has the connection to God that has been given to us.

John 17:22-23

"22 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. 23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me."

Relationship: We have been given the capacity to experience vertical and horizontal love.

Romans 1:31-32

"31 They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. 32 They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too."

Morality: We have been given the capacity to recognize and pursue justice.

Genesis 1:27

"So God created human beings[a] in his own image.

    In the image of God he created them;

    male and female he created them."

You were created in your distinct version of humanity.

Men and women are valuable, necessary, and jointly glorify God through their existence.

Genesis 1:28

"28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”

We were created to govern the earth and reign over the rest of creation.

You were created with a job description.

How do I remember why I exist when existence is difficult?

Psalm 139:13-16

"You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body

    and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

14 Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!

    Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it.

15 You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion,

    as I was woven together in the dark of the womb.

16 You saw me before I was born.

    Every day of my life was recorded in your book.

Every moment was laid out

    before a single day had passed."

God is unimaginably invested in your existence.

Psalm 139:17-18

"How precious are your thoughts about me,[a] O God.

    They cannot be numbered!

18 I can’t even count them;

    they outnumber the grains of sand!

And when I wake up,

    you are still with me!"

God is delighted in your existence.

You were created with attention and intention.

John 10:8-10

"8 All who came before me[a] were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them. 9 Yes, I am the gate. Those who come in through me will be saved.[b] They will come and go freely and will find good pastures. 10 The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life."

We were created to reflect our Creator.

We were created with a job description.

God is invested in your existence.

God is delighted in your existence.

Satan will do everything he can to convince you that one or all of these things are not true.

John 10:11-13

"11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd sacrifices his life for the sheep. 12 A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don’t belong to him and he isn’t their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock. 13 The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep."

Don’t trust the hired hand.

When I put my identity in the wrong place I risk basing my existence in a false reality.

You exist because God thought of you and thought you were a good idea.

What lies am I believing?

What have I given my identity to that does not deserve it?

How can I remind myself that I am a good idea?

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