Grow 'n' Go

A hectic week for sure.  One that will go much quicker than most of us want it to and for others, not soon enough.  It seems that 2011 just started and now it ends with a rush of returns, organizing facts and figures for tax preparations, parties and gatherings, paying of bills, holiday blues, winter dread, past reflections, and putting away all of the Christmas trappings.

What were your 2011 highlights?  Low points?  Make any new friends?  Did you learn anything new – knowledge or skill wise?  Lose any anyone close to you or say good-bye because of a life transition?  Is your life better or more bitter because of the past year?  What positive impact or contribution have you made to your family, church, community, and culture?  How is your health – mentally?  Socially?  Emotionally?  Physically?  Spiritually?  Is God more or less real to you? 

As you prepare for 2012, do you have any goals that are worthy of your life energy and really matter in terms of eternity?  For me, I want to both GROW 'n' GO. 

I want to GROW in my knowledge of God, His Word, and His Will for my life.  I would like to become more like Him inwardly and outwardly --- I’m not content in who I am.  I’m still too much like Don and not enough like Jesus.

 

2 Peter 3:18a  “But GROW in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

And I want to GO more.  Not in terms of travel but in building relationships with those who need Jesus.  The world is full of people whom God loves and desires to have in His spiritual family.  And He has commissioned me – and all who bear the name Christian, to tell others the good news of Christ.

Matthew 28:18-19a  ¹⁸ “Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ¹⁹ Therefore GO and make disciples of all nations,”

GROW 'n' GO will also be the theme for Grace Church during the coming year.   As you consider and even set goals for the New Year, I hope that you will join me in this twin endeavor.  I believe that both are worthy of our life energy and will really matter in terms of eternity.

On January 1, 2012 Grace Church will start the New Year with this two-fold emphasis and I hope that you will join me on this journey.