So That was Christmas?

So Christmas is over for another year. All the hassle of the last month trying to get things sorted out for the big day, presents bought, food prepared, decorations up, and before you know it, after an afternoon snooze after eating dinner and opening your pressies....it’s all over.

Then there’s that flat feeling on boxing day. Maybe thats why New Year is so close, so you have one more fling to look forward to, and then your resolutions to make to take your mind off the last week.

I did a sermon once on the difference between Christmas and xmas, with the difference being that with xmas you are celebrating the date, but with Christmas you are celebrating something a whole lot more. You are celebrating the birth of our saviour, Jesus. It’s great that we have all the trimmings as long as we remember what the whole celebration is about for us as Christians.

As we prepare for the new year, my mind is racing with the next steps  to making BASE even bigger and impactful in 2012, but I’ll go into that a bit more in the new years’ blog. For now I want us to concentrate on looking forward and preparing ourselves.

Keep Praying

I know it’s been a tough year for most of us, but if we look back, look at how much has happened with BASE and the youth in the area! Keep praying that God will bless us as a Youth Organisation spiritually, healthily, and financially.

Keep Planning

One of the great things about this year has been the amount of you who have came to me with ideas and plans for BASE. Keep it going! You wouldn’t believe what an encouragement it is to myself, and the senior church leaders, that you are doing this. It shows us that the teaching you are getting is sinking in, and we are raising a generation of young leaders that are going to take not just this town, but this area, this county, this country for God!

Keep Dreaming

God loves dreamers! Keep dreaming big things for BASE, no matter how unlikely they seem. Jesus said that if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will be able to move mountains. The church needs dreamers. There’s enough people already trying to keep the church as a social club and a place of social standing. God doesn’t want you to do that, he wants you to think outside the box, to dream big, and to be mighty in his eyes for doing his will well, not mighty in mans eyes  for the position you hold and nothing else.

Have a great week everyone. I pray that you all have a brilliant new years eve, celebrating with loved ones and being great witnesses for Christ!