1. New Year Resolution(s) Life Goals

2. What makes you a better person? What makes a wonderful life ? a successful life ? What would you consider: wonderful ? successful ? essential ?

3. to worship God to be nurtured by God to live & grow in the Body to reach out to others According to your designer in terms of your design

4. 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

5. to worship better: Try resolutions that’s worth it deliberate preparation, focus on in-take, take the praise-songs into your life

6. to learn & live-out God’s Word: read into your heart (try ALJ5) actively learn in Sunday School live out what you learn Try resolutions that’s worth it

7. to live out the BodyLife: try to open up myself practice love & forgiveness get into a BodyLife group

8. be interested in a friend’s salvation willing to talk about your ‘story’ involve in a missions/social project to commit to ReachingOut: Try resolutions that’s worth it

9. 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

10. The Spiritual realm The Relational realm

11. Relational role - also multi-dimension: son brother husband father grand-father Can you specialize? Or should you be all-rounded

12. Side-bar Help your significant others to be well-rounded in their relationships

13. Secondary = Relational realm = daughter, sister, wife, mother, etc Primary = Spiritual realm = Worship, Nurture, BodyLife, OutReach = Gift-exerciser Tertiary = Societal realm = teacher, neighbour,

14. Secondary: Relational realm Primary: Spiritual realm Tertiary: Societal realm

15. Make resolutions to balance to enhance

16. [B] Your Church [A] YOU Y organically related

17. You Life Goals & Resolutions and your Church’s direction organically related

18. How so ? (1) What is the church ? Ans: We are the church

19. (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)

20. (3) What is the goal / vision of the church ? Can it be something that has nothing to do with you? Can it be something that is not in terms of your goals?

21. Goals of the church – properly framed: How the members are helped in fulfilling God’s design: in inspiring Worship in motivating teaching & practicing of the Word in loving BodyLife in compassionate ReachOut

22. The church – as an institution provides the platforms the programs The church – as a people provides the living the beings The 2 work together

23. (4) How will these make our church distinctive ? What should we be aiming for: - being distinctive? - or being good?

24. (5) Is this ‘it’ ? Can this be good enough for our church? Yes & No Yes: according to the Designer No: there’s always much more for every single aspect

25. What will Paul say if he were to write to us ? Col. 1 (A) We are doing well (B) We can do much better

26. What then will be the vision for SCBC ?