Reformed vs Charismatic

[kohelet]

Listened to Brians Houston sermon. He wanted to build everything on having a purpose. The purpose is x, and because that is your purpose you fail if you do not fulfill it. So God is your ideal, so you copy what he wants, you love what he loves, you do this because he does this etc. Ofcourse then if your God is legalistic, you are legalistic, if he is free, you are free.

No, Jesus comes to us and offers us love, un-requited love, an open door, acceptance from the Living God. And His trade is we let him rebuild us because we admit we have failed to live as we wanted to or should have. This is our foundation, the cross.
We do not fail because we do not fit a purpose rather we exist, we love, we obey. God made us to be His friends, to be brothers and sisters, to be family. The sad truth is without love in our hearts we are chaff to be blown in the wind, burnt in the fire, of no ultimate value or use.

What stands as a testimony against this whole sermon, it missed this essential reality of what our problem really is, and it is not getting a purpose, it is about becoming part of Gods family.

Not every sermon will be about being part of God's family. In our (Baptist) church it is generally taken for granted that the majority are believers. At other times sermons are more seeker-focussed. As for "getting a purpose", we each have gifts and functions within the body and fulfil our purpose by exercising them. That doesn't strike me as something to take a preacher to task about at all. It's part and parcel of being a Christian.