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• Illustration: May shares a portion of his personal testimony, talking about struggling as a teen to discover something more, something passionate in the Christian life.
• When I was 16 I discovered the “something more” was a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
• God wants you to experience a life-changing, life-empowering connection with Jesus Christ that puts your Christian life in overdrive.
• Galatians 2:1-21
• Living the Christian life is not about living by certain rules and customs, it is about making a lifelong, life-changing connection with Jesus Christ.
• Galatians 2:20-21
• Big Idea: In order to experience the fullness of the Christian life, you have to be crucified with Christ.

• Galatians 2:20
• Romans 12:2
• We have to adapt this mindset—we have to remind ourselves on a daily basis—“I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.”
• Illustration: May quotes C.S. Lewis on the necessity to daily and constantly remind ourselves to surrender to Christ alive in us.

• Galatians 2:20
• Illustration: May references a scene from the movie It’s a Wonderful Life to demonstrate that when we ask for God’s intervention, it may not immediately change the way we feel.
• When you yield yourself to Christ’s lordship in your life, the next step is to move forward in faith as if that prayer has been answered—because it has been, whether you can feel it or not.
• Philippians 4:13
• Romans 14:23
• Galatians 2:20
• The Christian life is not about following religious rituals, it is about being connected to Christ through faith.

• Galatians 2:21
• You will never get to the point where you can earn God’s salvation.
• Ephesians 2:8-9
• If you want something more in your Christian life—something beyond the mere trappings of external religion—you have to abandon once and for all the idea that you will someday be in a position to earn God’s favor.
• You’re not going to set the curve, and if you think that you are better than others, you are not living in grace.
• Luke 18:9-14

• Do you want to experience something more in your relationship with God?
• You have to be crucified with Christ, and you have to let him live through you, minute-by-minute of every waking day.