As we consider The Question of the Ages this month, Whitney T. Kuniholm—President of Scripture Union/USA and former executive vice president of Prison Fellowship Ministries—pushes us to consider The Essential Question: How You Can Make a Difference for God.
Most people want to make a positive impact with their lives—through education, career, family, service to the community or through accomplishing some notable goal or achievement.
Human beings seem to have a built-in longing to make their lives count for something more. The philosopher Plato reportedly described the human as “a being in search of meaning.” And in more recent times, Viktor Frankl, a survivor of the Nazi concentration camps and author of the classic book Man’s Search for Meaning, wrote, “Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.”
“Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness” (Matthew 6:33). That’s our mission statement.
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