resolution

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It's New Year's Day, which means it's time for that peculiar ritual of resolution making. We could call it the ritual of Good Intentions. Because making resolutions has become something of a cultural joke, something we all participate in. I want to be fit this year (why do you think gyms make you pay your membership a year at a time? Because they bank on New Year's business!). I want to read more. I want to spend more time at home.

I want to be more spiritual.

That's the one that always killed me. Growing up in the Church, New Year's was when I always decided that THIS would be the year I finally read my bible more or prayed more or whatever.

And of course, we know that the joke of Resolutions is that they are gone by February. Gyms are pretty slow in November and December. And while a few of us keep our resolutions, most of us let them fall by the wayside.

Today, I want to challenge Beavercreek Nazarene to be a people who are better than average. I want to be a part of a Church, part of a people who use 2012 to become more than we are right now.

I want to be a part of a Church in January 2013 that blows our January 2012 minds.

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