Need a New Year's Resolution?

January 1st not only started a New Year it also started a New Decade!  The New Year brings hope and excitement as we wonder what the next year will bring.  It is also the perfect time to evaluate ourselves and make New Year’s Resolutions.

Ok, I know, they are a little cheesy and we all have treadmills that only see action when our toddlers swing them (sorry, too much information).   But seriously, Resolutions can be great things.  If you are a theology geek like me, then let me remind you that even Jonathan Edwards had a powerful list of Resolutions that guided his life.  I have always liked #7 “Resolved, Never to do any thing, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”

If you are looking for a New Year’s Resolution or if you simply need to be challenged in your spiritual life, then I want to call you to dwell like Jesus in 2010.  John 1:14 says, “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us”.  Jesus left the comforts of his Trinitarian culture to strategically live within another culture with the purpose of glorifying God by making disciples.  He went, extended grace, made disciples, and thus glorified God. Jesus was a missionary!

We are starting a new little techie initiative called Dwell Like Jesus in order to spur each other on to be missionaries.  Dwell Like Jesus is a weekly journal found online at our Bethel website, DwellLikeJesus.com, on Facebook, and on Twitter.  These journals will be about how each us can live missional lives like Jesus.  They will be practical and do-able ideas as well as fun reads written by a hand-selected group of Bethelites who are dwelling like Jesus.  These “dwellers” are just like you and me, normal people trying to have an impact for the glory of God.

Sign up today at Bethelofhouston.com, DwellLikeJesus.com, or on Facebook, or Twitter.

 

- Micah Caswell