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Everybody wants to be happy. Everybody is on a happiness quest. For many, happiness is measured in moments. Experiences. Its elusive. Unsustainable. What about you? What makes you happy? Something comes to mind for each of us.
In this six-session video Bible study, pastor Andy Stanley examines the ways in which we tend to define happiness and explains how that definition influences the way we pursue it. He reveals that happiness is about who, not what, and that happy people are at peace with God, with others, and with themselves. He also shows how sin undermines peace because it separates us from God, others, and ourselves by substituting pleasure for fulfillment, things for people, images for intimacy, and self-expression for self-control.
We are often tempted to believe that happiness comes from acquiring things, but happiness is actually an outcome of what we sow in our lives. We cant acquire, consume, or exercise our way to happiness, but we may be able to serve and volunteer our way there. In the end, we find that if we live as if its all about us, we will never be happy.
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[ BEFORE SESSION ONE ]
1. Read through to gain an overview of the study.
2. Read through A Typical Group Meeting on to gain an understanding of the flow of this study.
3. Read through the content in Session One on .
[ DURING EACH GROUP MEETING ]
1. Turn to the Video Notes page, and watch the video segment.
2. Use the Discussion Questions to have a conversation about the video content.
3. Read the Think About It section aloud.
4. Review the Before the Next Session homework at the end of the chapter.
We all want to be happy. But lets face it: great art and literature throughout history have been based on the premise that an awful lot of peoplemaybe even most peoplego through life with a deep sense of yearning. Theres something inside them that feels empty. No matter how much they achieve or acquire, that emptiness doesnt go away. Its as if they can catch a glimpse of happiness, but they cant quite ever get hold of it. And once theyve chased after the false promise of happiness for long enough, they begin to suspect that happiness doesnt even exist. They lose hope. They give up.
Heres the good news: it is possible to be happy. It is possible to fill that empty space inside.
The title of this study could be a questionWhat makes you happy?but it could also be a statement. It might even be a promise. Over the next six sessions, were going to tell you what makes you happy. The reason well tell you what makes you happy is that you may not know. The idea that you dont know what makes you happy may be surprising. It may even be offensive. After all, no one knows you better than you, right?
Theres one way to tell if you know what makes you happy. If you keep chasing after happiness, but youre not happy, theres a good chance its because you dont know what makes you happy. Imagine that.
If you think its strange for someone who doesnt know you to promise to tell you what makes you happy, just remember that every time you open a magazine, listen to the radio, go on the Internet, or watch television, people youve never met in places youve never visited create shows, movies, books, and ads that tell you what will make you happy. Every single one of us has fallen for someones promise of the secret of happiness at least once or twice... if not 100 times.
As well discover over the course of this study, its impossible to market and sell true happiness. Quick-fix happiness can be marketed and sold, but not the real stuffnot lasting happiness. The path to true happiness is simple to understand but challenging to follow. It requires living with intentionality. It demands letting go of some of our most deeply held cultural assumptions. It means looking at the world around us through an entirely new set of lenses.
Few people in our culture are talking about what really makes us happy. So for the next few weeks, were going to do just that. Were going to tell you what makes you happy.
If only I had... if only I drove... if only I wore... if only I knew... if only I won... then I would feel better about myself. Then I would be happy.
Youve had thoughts like that, right? We all have. You spend a lot of time and money chasing after happiness, but it always feels just out of reach. No matter what you do, no matter what you achieve, no matter how much you acquire, youre still not happy.
Heres what you need to understand: happiness is more about who than what. We learn this lesson early in life, but we tend to forget it as we grow older. We learned it in the backyard when we were playing with a bunch of whos. It didnt matter what we had. It didnt matter what we didnt have. It mattered who we were with. When we were in elementary school, middle school, and high school, it didnt matter what we had as long as we were with the right bunch of whos. Isnt that true?
Happiness is always associated with a who or two.
If happiness were about a what, we could just go out and get our happy whats and wed be happy all the time. It wouldnt matter how people treated us.
The problem is that happy what always leads to happy what else. Thats because happy what is like caffeine. It wears off over time. You were as excited about your old phone when you first bought it as you are about your new phone. Soon, your new phone wont be new anymore and you wont be excited about it. Youll need a new one. Same with your car. Same with your job.
If an aging what deflates your happiness, you werent happy to begin with. You were just on the receiving end of good marketing.
Happiness is about who. At the end of their lives, people dont have possessional regrets. They have relational regrets. They dont long for more stuff. They long for better, healthier connections with others.
Happy people are at peace. They have peace with themselves, others, and God. Any thing or behavior that undermines peace in any of those relationships undermines their happiness.
WHO, NOT WHAT
Every so often youll hear someone say, I dont need anyone to be happy. But people who say that fall into one of two categories. Either they have so many relational options, they dont know what its like to be isolated, or they dont know how to fix their isolation so they tell themselves theyre fine. Again, relationally disconnected people arent happy. God made us for other people. And connection to God is the foundation of happiness.
One thing Jesus followers have discovered is that peace with God paves the way to peace with ourselves and equips us to make peace with others. When you begin to view yourself in a right relationship with your Creator, something happens on the inside. That peace with God frees us to find peace with ourselves and equips us to make peace with others. In fact, most of the New Testament is about how to be at peace with other people.
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