New Year Resolution(s)

Life Goals

What makes you a better person?

What makes a wonderful life ?a successful life ?

What would you consider:wonderful ?successful ?essential ?

• to worship God

• to be nurtured by God

• to live & grow in the Body

• to reach out to others

According to your designerin terms of your design

These are not about ‘doing’but about ‘being’

Not enough to know about them.Need to drill them in so as to live them out

• to worship better:

Try resolutions that’s worth it

deliberate preparation,focus on in-take,take the praise-songs into your life

• to learn & live-out God’s Word:read into your heart (try ALJ5)actively learn in Sunday Schoollive out what you learn

Try resolutions that’s worth it

Try resolutions that’s worth it

• to live out the BodyLife:try to open up myselfpractice love & forgivenessget into a BodyLife group

be interested in a friend’s salvationwilling to talk about your ‘story’involve in a missions/social project

• to commit to ReachingOut:

Try resolutions that’s worth it

Can I just specialize in 1 ?Why do I need all 4 ?

•We are created / designed to be a 4-dimensional creature

•Lacking any 1 of the dimensions we’ll be reduced to nothing

The Spiritual realm

The Relational realm

Relational role- also multi-dimension:

• son• brother• husband• father• grand-father

Can you specialize?

Or should you be all-rounded

Side-bar

Help your significant othersto be well-roundedin their relationships

Secondary = Relational realm= daughter, sister, wife, mother, etc

Primary = Spiritual realm= Worship, Nurture, BodyLife, OutReach= Gift-exerciser

Tertiary = Societal realm= teacher, neighbour,

Secondary:Relational realm

Primary: Spiritual realm

Tertiary:Societal realm

Make resolutions

to balance

to enhance

[B] Your Church

[A] YOU

Y

organically related

You Life Goals & Resolutions

and your Church’s direction

organically related

How so?

(1) What is the church ?

Ans: We are the church

(2) The mandate of the church is:to fulfill God’s design

in the members (Col.1:9, 25)

in terms of: • being a vital Christian• developing the gift(s)

(3) What is the goal / visionof the church ?

Can it be something thathas nothing to do with you?

Can it be something thatis not in terms of your goals?

Goals of the church – properly framed:

How the members are helpedin fulfilling God’s design:• in inspiring Worship• in motivating teaching & practicing of the Word• in loving BodyLife• in compassionate ReachOut

The church – as an institutionprovides the platforms

the programs

The church – as a peopleprovides the living

the beings

The 2 work together

(4) How will these makeour church distinctive ?

What should we be aiming for:- being distinctive?- or being good?

(5) Is this ‘it’ ?Can this be good enough

for our church?

Yes & NoYes: according to the Designer

No: there’s always much more for every single aspect

What will Paul sayif he were to write to us ?

Col. 1(A) We are doing well

(B) We can do much better

What then will bethe vision for SCBC ?