Challenge 2010

What will you do in 2010 that will make the most significant spiritual impact in your life? What will you do this year that will contribute most to your personal growth in godliness?

This I know: if you don’t plan to grow in godliness this year, you won’t. Godliness doesn’t just happen. Cultivating Christ-likeness requires discipline and time.

Don’t waste this year. By the grace of God, go hard after holiness this year. Of all the things you are going to pursue this year, make the pursuit of maturity in Christ your primary goal.

So, how are you going to position yourself to increase your enjoyment of God this year?

There are lots of ways to lay ourselves in the path of godliness. However, I want to challenge you in one particular way. I want to challenge you to do something this year that will make the most impact in the most areas of your Christian life.

Based on Colossians 3:16, I want to challenge you to let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in 2010.

Among the many ways to grow in godliness in the Christian life, none are more helpful than saturating ourselves in the Bible. In Donald Whitney’s excellent book on the Spiritual Disciplines, he writes, “No spiritual discipline is more important than the intake of God’s Word.”

George Muller said, “The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.”

Grow in godliness this year (this decade) by devoting yourself to letting the Word of Christ dwell in you richly.

Colossians 3:16: "Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly."

Here are 5 observations on these 9 words from the sermon Sunday:
1. This is a command.
2. This is a command directed at those who desire to center their lives on Christ (context).
3. This is a command to do something with the Word of Christ.
4. This is a command to let the Word of Christ dwell in us.
5. This is a command to let the Word of Christ dwell in us RICHLY.