Our time is precious. It runs out quickly. And if we aren't careful, before we know what's happened it's all gone. It's an age-old problem, and one that is more and more important as we live in an ever-busier world.

As we finish up Fundamentals this week, we're looking at what might just be the most important fundamental of them all, because, without it, well, we just won't have time for the rest. To figure out how to solve this problem we'll look to the life of Jesus in the Bible for how to not just manage our most precious resource, but how to invest that resource with purpose.

We were made to worship God. There's nothing more fundamental than that, but what does that mean? For most of us we probably think about music, singing, lifting hands, or other things along those lines. We talk about "worship" as if it's music, but that's complicated. What if we don't like the style? What if we don't like raising our hands? What if we really don't like singing at all? And, if worship is about singing, how can we even know if we're doing it "right"?

This week we'll explore the fundamental reason God made us – to worship Him, but more importantly we'll look to the words of Paul to learn what that looks like practically. And for each of us, when we fulfill our most basic God-given purpose in the way God intended, our relationship with Him grows, but, according to Paul, we are also able to follow Him more closely as well.

God created us for relationship and intimacy with Him, but so many of us don't experience that intimacy in our faith. Why? What is it that keeps us from having exactly what God says He wants, and that He created us for.

In part one of this four part message series we'll look at the words and life of Jesus, strip back all the religious stuff we tend to attach to faith, and learn one simple, small habit we can put in place to give us access to the intimacy with God we so desperately want.