This document contains various resolutions and advice for personal and spiritual growth in the new year. It discusses resolving to lose weight, get organized, save money, fall in love, and spend time with family. For spiritual growth, it suggests resolutions to grow in community, outreach, spirituality, stability, and progress within a church. It identifies potential barriers like a lack of desire or prayer and acting like a small church. It advises adopting a new leadership approach and encouraging congregations to act like growing churches.

1. Happy NEW YEAR

2. Year’s RESOLUT
1. Lose WEIGHT
2. Get ORGANIZE
3. Save MONEY
4. Fall IN LOVE
5. Be With FAMILY

3. Make the Resolutio
dentify the Barrier
opt a New Approa

4. rethink:CHURCH

5. urch RESOLUTIO
1. Grow in COMMU
2. Grow in OUTRE
3. Grow in SPIRITU
4. Grow in STABIL
5. Grow in PROGR

6. Spiritual SEEKERS
“Magi from the east
came to Jerusalem
and asked, “Where is
the one who has been
born king of the Matthew

7. Spiritual SEEKERS
“In the days to come,
the house of the Lord
will be raised above
the hills, and there
shall all the nationsIsaiah

8. Spiritual SEEKERS
“Nations shall come to
your light, and kings
to the brightness of
your dawn. Lift up
your eyes and lookIsaiah

9. rowing CHURCHE
Family Pastoral Program Corporate

10. Make the Resolutio
dentify the Barrier
opt a New Approa

11. entify the BARRIE
Not a Lack of
Desire
Not a Lack of
Prayer

12. entify the BARRIE
Small Churches
Are Small
Because They Act
Like Small

15. pherd vs. RANCH
Shepherd

16. pherd vs. RANCH
Rancher

17. Pastoral
Program
75-150
150+
Seeker
Seeker
A Tale
of Two
Church
es

18. Make the Resolutio
dentify the Barrier
opt a New Approa

19. pt a NEW APPRO
Leadership : a
New APPROACH
Congregation :
a New

20. Old APPROACH
Small Churches
Are Small
Because They Act
Like Small

21. New APPROACH
Growing
Churches Grow
Because They Act
Like Growing

22. rethink:CHURCH