WEEK 2 // THE COMMITTED LIFE // DANNY ANDERSON

Hyper-individualism has created an un- culture.

We are suffering from a crisis of .

The second mountain is a life of deep and loving .

But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.” Ruth 1:16

1. Commitment gives your life an .

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“Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to achieve the amount of identity and continuity which together produce a ‘person’ about whom a story can be told; each of us would be condemned to wander helplessly and without direction in the darkness of his own lonely heart, caught in its ever-changing moods, contradictions, and equivocalities.” — Hannah Arendt

Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.” Matthew 22:37-38

2. Commitment gives your life .

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:19

3. Commitment gives your life .

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have remained faithful. And now the prize awaits me—the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me on the day of his return. And the prize is not just for me but for all who eagerly look forward to his appearing. 2 Timothy 4:7-8

Will you commit?

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