As I think about New Hope goals for 2012, developing a plan for having more room to grow is at the top of the list. It looks like God is bringing us new hope for healthy growth. We have children and their parents in our programs on both Sunday mornings and Wednesday nights. That reality and three other factors enable us to plan for growth.
· Our church is off to a good financial start for 2012. We finished the year with money to put into savings. We have $13,000 in our Building Fund. (Thank you for your faithful giving.)
· Our Church Council has made plans for getting us a site plan that will provide a vision of where we can go in the future with expanded buildings.
· Thanks to the foresight of founding pastor Tom Kelsey and other New Hope leaders, we have a wonderful piece of property on which to build.
Six years ago, God gave me two life-changing things at the same time: becoming pastor of New Hope Baptist Church and knowledge of the principles of Real Love. In God’s providence, I was given a church to love and the knowledge that “our souls require feeling loved in just as real a way as our bodies require air and food.” Greg Baer’s Real Love Bible Study Workbook and his “Essentials of Real Love Seminar” on DVDs have changed the way I see human sinfulness and the Bible’s assertion that “God is love.” I plan to present what I have learned to the church I love as clearly as I can in a series of sermons. Here is the plan.
January 8 What Is Real Love and Why Do We Need It? 1John4:10; Isaiah 55:1-3
January 15 Imitation Love: Sugar Babies vs. Soul Food
January 22 Getting and Protecting Behaviors, also Known as Sin
January 29 Changing Your Judgment of People
February 5 Getting Love So That You Can Give It: A River of Life Flowing Out of Me John 4:7-26
February 12 The Law of Choice and the Law of Consequences
February 17 What Can Real Love Do for a Church?
February 24 Real Love and Eternal Life
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