You may look at that title and say, “What in the world is that supposed to mean?” The title of this post is also the title of a sermon Louie Giglio preached at Passion 2006 and is available on the Passion ’06 DVD. I encourage you to check it out.

The concept behind the sermon is that whether you are a pastor, missionary, or a fashion designer, you should do everything to the glory of God. He says that you don’t necesarrily have to sew a Bible verse into the label of the jeans, or anything blatant like that, but that it could be as simple as making those jeans the best of the best, being honest, and giving back to the church and community. Amazing things could come from a concept as seemingly simple as that.

Some of you may know that me and Ryan are Mac freaks. We love our Macs. Windows is just weird (no offense to our Windows readers, we love you guys, just not your operating system of choice ) Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple, and today I was reading a post online about his top 10 quotes of all time. There was one quote that reminded me of this sermon and inspired this post. It said:
“We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else would we even be here?”

God made every person with a passion and a purpose, whether it be ministry, computers, or fashion design. Acts 13:36 (NASB) says: “David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation…” God gave me a purpose to impact this generation. He gave me my abilities and talents for this generation. I wasn’t born 600 years ago, and I wasn’t born 600 years from now. I was born in a specific place in time for a specific purpose in a specific place with specific gifts. What are your gifts? What has God given you to impact this generation of kids, that they may impact their generation, and so on and so forth.

Thinking about that last paragraph made me think of an illustration that Ryan used just this morning in Kids’ Church. He was using it with kids, but I still think it applies here. He started with one kid reaching one kid. Then the next week they each reach one. Then the next week those four each reach one. And on and on, till just 8 weeks after you started you had gone from 1 kid to 128 kids. If we could light a fire in every kid we reach each week to reach just one new kid a week, can you imagine the possibilities? Imagine Sunday mornings in children’s ministries across America if every kid reached one new kid a week. I dare say it wouldn’t take long for every kid in the entire United States and the world to have been reached with God’s message.

At the end of Rick Warren’s book, “The Purpose-Driven Life”, he urges you to create a vision statement for your life. I wrote one, and I’ve posted it below for you to read. It has been about three years since I’ve read the book, so it may not be great, but I think there’s some good things in it that are pertinent to this post.

My Vision Statement

And that’s the way I see it.