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By Dan Amos

I had an idea to write about Pgo and Pwin. I even spent pretty much a whole sermon thinking it all through, writing it out in my head. It’s not that my mind was wandering, but it was engaged in a different direction … but when it came time to put the words into Notepad, it just didn’t flow.

Pgo and Pwin are terms I’ve learned to use in my job in business development to quantify the probability of an opportunity happening, and of winning it. For the purpose of this note, the opportunity is what we’re all about as children of God.

We exist to be in relationship with God. That is the opportunity. In this existence, we must choose whether we live in relationship with Him or in opposition to Him. We are already eternal beings, and we’ll take the results of this relationship with us into eternity. Either we will be in eternal relationship with Him or we will be eternally separated from Him.

With Him, we will be surrounded by His perfect love, enveloped by His glory. Our hearts will burst out in songs of praise, and I will finally be able to clap AND sing simultaneously. (For now, it’s one or the other, not both.) We will have purpose and fulfillment, but sorrow will be gone forever.

Without Him, our eternal existence will be unending misery. We will have a void that can never be filled. The torment and pain will be like nothing ever known, and it will not end. Eternity is real, and it is for everyone. How we spend it is the most important choice we make in this life.

These two options for eternity are the 10th point of our Statement of Faith. For those keeping track, this would be the Opportunity. Within the first eight points of the statement are the basics of who God is and what He has done for us. Understanding who He is is all part of Pgo. Because He did all the work (Point 5), our response to “God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone” (Point 7) is our Pwin. And, just to complete the analogy, Point 9, on Christ’s return, is part of the award process.

The point is, we must know who it is we serve and know what it is He wants of us. If we have that wrong, we are chasing a false opportunity, and we risk losing everything. We already have eternal life; it’s where we spend it that’s the opportunity. A win is spending it with Him. A loss is complete isolated desolation without Him. Make sure you understand the Pgo and go all in for Pwin and make your Paward 100%.

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