J O U R N E Y

By Pastor Brad Heintz

Have you ever played a trivia game? It used to be on cards that you would ask one another. Recently we played a trivia game that involved multi-media. For bonus points the game played song lyrics and you had to guess the musician and song title.

The first song came on and I knew it instantly because I was a city boy who grew up in south Detroit in the 1980’s. This song was our theme song! Do you know it yet? Maybe you were a small-town girl and didn’t get out much until you took the midnight train? Wherever you were and whether or not you were alive in the 1980’s you probably have heard at some time the song by the rock band, Journey, called, “Don’t Stop Believin’.”

Every one of us is on a journey because life just that – a journey. The big challenge is that the journey can cause you to stop believin’ in so many things. The big question is where is your journey going? Yes, you can aimlessly walk through life, but do you know the number one question of people who are in their 20’s or their 80’s ask? In my experience as a pastor, many people in these two very different age groups ask the very same question - “What’s my purpose in life?”

There is one person who has lived this journey of life who knew his purpose and knew how to live his purpose. He was a small-town boy from Nazareth who journeyed throughout the land of Israel all the way to the big city of Jerusalem. He fulfilled his purpose by carrying his cross down the boulevard all the way to Calvary. There he gave his life while soldiers rolled dice and others sung the blues. It was there that he fulfilled his purpose. You know it from John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, Jesus, that whoever believes in Him, shall not perish but have eternal life.”

If you are not sure where your journey is leading you, if you are in your 20’s or 80’s or any other decade and struggling with purpose, if you need to be reminded, just follow the one man who knew how to live His purpose. If you have never done this, try it and see if you start believin’. If you are a believer, keep trying it, and don’t stop believin’. Living Word Church is on a journey this spring to His cross, and through His grave and into a new church home and community center. We would love for you to join us in the journey and grow in your understanding of who Jesus is, what is your purpose is and how you can live it out.

Pastor Brad Heintz is the founding pastor of Living Word Church in Taylor Lake Village, Texas, a vibrant family-style, non-denominational gathering of believers who take a pure, simple and real approach to faith and life. www.LWCBA.org