Chrisy and I would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year, and we sincerely wish that your 2008 will be filled with happiness, success, health and most importantly, Jesus Christ.  Let’s use 2008 to rededicate ourselves to becoming more Christ-like and becoming humble servants of our living Lord that will seek His face everyday, and will refocus our attention on fulfilling God’s greatest command, the Great Commission. 

There are so many people dying and going to hell because we have lost our heart for the unsaved and sinners of this world, and have replaced it with a drive for self-satisfaction and self-comfort.  We’ve become too concerned with the “needs” of the members within the church that we have forgotten why Christ died on the cross.  He died for the lost souls of this earth.  He didn’t die so that Patrick could drive a nice car, own a nice house, have a good job, have a nice, comfy Christian place to retire too, or for any other reason.  We have forgotten that we don’t deserve anything but to spend eternity in hell with Satan himself.  Whatever I have, it’s because God chose to give to me and chose to give me His Mercy.  I am saved because He gave His only Son as the ultimate gift of salvation.

Our responsibility is to the lost souls of this world.  So, let’s all, including Christy and me, make a decision that we will live for Christ and the lost souls of this earth in 2008.  We will give more and do more to reach the lost souls.  We will get involved in missions and we will give our time, our money and our resources to fulfilling the Great Commission. This is our duty and our responsibility as Christians. 

We may not know worldly blessings in 2008 but I promise you God will honor those that will live for Him in the coming year. 

Let’s make 2008 the year that we turn our hearts back to the lost.