“What if Jesus wants more for you than everything you’ve always wanted?… (In the) Flappy Bird game, all there is is flapping and flying and grabbing as much stuff as you can and destroying as many people as you can and trying to survive as long as you can without crashing… Why? (Kind of) like some of our jobs… Why? We don’t know. But we love it, we are addicted to it. (But) we are tired and frustrated and angry and we don’t know why….Nobody who’s ‘livin’ the dream’ ever seems to know that they are ‘livin’ the dream.’ There’s still something more that they want besides what they’ve always wanted….You can live your life for your own personal castle or you can give your life for a greater Kingdom… How many flappers and climbers and grabbers and slashers and dashers do you remember two thousand years later?…But when you see how Jesus lived and died you see a way to live. You see a way to die. You see a way to live again.” – Chris Freeland (muy condensed version!)
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