Category: Christian Leadership

The Essential Question: How You Can Make a Difference for God

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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The Question of the Ages

Where does meaning in life come from, and why does life seem so futile? Why are we here? 

Dr. Tony Evans of The Urban Alternative points out, “A Life Well Lived is a straightforward and insightful look into the Book of Ecclesiastes, which tells the story of the only man to ever have everything the world can offer—money, wisdom, and pleasure—and he came to the conclusion that those things cannot satisfy.”

Ecclesiastes contains the reflections of a man who played the fool, who had it all and lost it all, and then discovered what was worth having anyway.

Mark Twain once said, “The world will lament you for an hour and forget you forever.”  Solomon begins with the same observation: Life passes, and instead of rewarding you it grinds you up.

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