2026 is coming!
Do you have any New Year’s Eve or New Year’s celebrations? Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Is January 1 an opportunity for a fresh start, to break a bad habit or start a good habit?
My mom and dad always ate pork and sauerkraut on New Year’s Day. I do not like sauerkraut, so our family usually makes pork egg rolls as our take on the traditional pork and sauerkraut. I am not much of a New Year’s resolution type of person.
If you are familiar with the church calendar, you know that this Sunday is called Epiphany Sunday. Epiphany Sunday takes time to recognize the Magi who travel a great distance to visit Jesus. It also celebrates the recognition (epiphany) that Jesus Christ, God incarnate, entered the world. If you are familiar with the Methodist Church calendar (anyone?), the first Sunday of the new year is often called, Covenant Sunday. This special service was started by John Wesley for Jesus Followers to renew their commitment and to rededicate themselves to God. In the past several years I have appreciated taking some time at the beginning of the year to take a spiritual inventory, identify the areas in my life that could use some extra attention, and pay some attention to those areas, and most importantly seek God in deeper and more authentic ways.
This Sunday we will continue with our Advent theme of Be Amazed: Come and See. We will be looking at John 1:43-51, in this short passage we see the invitation to come and see, two times. What can we learn from Jesus’ and Philip’s invitation to; Come and See?
Does this scripture change the way you think about evangelism?
Do we as Anabaptists have some heartburn with the word, “evangelism”?
Let’s talk about it on Sunday.
Happy New Year!
~ Pastor Dustin
