Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011

What a year 2010 has been. God has done so many

 things – Las & Lila have been married, baby's have

been born, baptisms have happened, people have

committed their lives to Jesus. Marriage seminars have

taken place, there have been men and women's

mentoring and the cells have been active in serving

the community through the Besom project among other

things, as well as strengthening and caring for each

other. There have also been Kenya missions,

Birmingham youth missions and youth outreach

evenings. There have been parenting courses and

marriage weekends away. There has been Coffee

shop revive and the parent and toddlers group.

Jason & Joelle have planted into Normandy and

Christian & Kara are about to get equipped in

South Africa.

All these things are a part of walking in our inheritance, which has been our theme in 2010. It takes courage and obedience to God to walk in the things he has asked us to do. It also takes a relationship with God - being willing to spend time with Him. Let's never forget that immediately after the 10 commandments (Deut 5: 6 - 22) comes the command to love the Lord our God with all our heart (Deut 6: 4 - 6). We can only do God's will when we love him and we can only love him when we know he loves us (1 John 4: 19). This is eternal life to know the only true God and Jesus Christ who He has sent (John 17: 3). It's about relationship. We know this eternal life is the key blessing of our New Covenant inheritance. But along with that comes Kingdom family, a kingdom purpose – bringing heaven to earth and eventually a new heaven and earth with the reward of an eternity with Jesus. So as we enjoy Christmas with friends and family and then begin 2011, let's take time to seek God and hear His voice telling us He loves us, that we're worth it (He must think that as he died for us) and He has a purpose for our lives.

Then as we enter 2011 we will enter with that sense of being people in the purpose of God and we will be ready to move into the mission, discipleship and power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus served the mission of His Father out of relationship with His Father and was therefore able to disciple others out of deep love and in the power of the Holy Spirit. As we move forward let’s remember that God does not want us to walk alone - we do all this as a team and kingdom family - reaching generations.