press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

It gives clear meaning and purpose to our lives - we exist for God

To live for Christ and to be committed to Him.

21to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

Though we are part of society in which we live, our lives should be clearly different from those of the world.

To be a leader and set an example not a follower who gives into pressure

If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

feeling of intense enthusiasm towards or compelling desire for someone or something

Look to Christ for strength and wisdom to make good decisions.

14I have given them your word and the world has hated them, for they are not of the world any more than I am of the world. 15My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it.

Light and Darkness

Self and Flesh

4For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will- 6to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves.