The New Year often brings with it resolutions for behaviors we intend to practice or goals we hope to achieve.
As we begin a new year, let me share five brief exhortations
(along with a Scripture proof) that might serve as resolutions for members and
friends of CRBC:
1.
Let us be committed to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
“But grow in
grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be
glory both now and for ever. Amen.” (2 Peter 3:18).
2.
Let us be committed to sustaining this local church in its worship and
ordinances.
“Not forsaking the
assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one
another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching” (Hebrews 10:25).
3.
Let us be committed to receiving and profiting from the “ordinary means”
of grace, including prayer, reading the Word of God (privately in our personal
lives and corporately in the church), hearing the preaching and teaching of the
Holy Scriptures, submitting to baptism (if not baptized), and regularly taking
the Lord’s Supper when it is served.
“As newborn babes,
desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby” (1 Peter 2:2).
4.
Let us be committed to meaningful fellowship and sincere expressions of
love for the brotherhood of believers.
“A
new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you,
that ye also love one another” (John 13:34).
5.
Let us be committed to personal ministry (beginning within our own
household), to evangelism, and to missions (spreading the gospel around the
world).
“As we have
therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who
are of the household of faith” (Galatians 6:10).
Grace
and peace, Pastor Jeff Riddle
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