<p><em style="color: rgba(40, 45, 48, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">In Search of the Holy</em><span style="color: rgba(40, 45, 48, 1); background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1)">&nbsp;paints a picture of a full and complete life-a life that lives up to our craziest childhood dreams.</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(40, 45, 48, 1)">But rather than freewheeling pursuit of some individual ideal, the hero life comes from an old concept, freshly relevant again today, called "holiness."&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(40, 45, 48, 1)">When a lot of regular people think about being "holy", they think about keeping the Ten Commandments. But the Ten Commandments are impossible. If the self-proclaimed holy rollers can't keep God's commandments, regular people don't have a chance.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(40, 45, 48, 1)">The good news is that in the Bible, being "holy" doesn't mean being pious or "good enough." It means to be "set apart for a special purpose". The antonym not profane or obscene; it is "ordinary."&nbsp;</span></p><p></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 1); color: rgba(40, 45, 48, 1)">And we don't get there by following a set of rules, but by following the One who was there when the rules were written, Jesus. What makes life exciting is who we worship, what we believe, and how we live-all of these are connected. Following Jesus turns life from ordinary to extraordinary as His love and grace change us from the inside out.</span></p>