Let Us Resolve to Live Biblically

For most of us, keeping New Year's resolutions does not have a high success rate.

by Bee Shira

Based on what we hear and experience ourselves, it's easy to conclude that keeping New Year's resolutions does not have a high success rate. Maybe failure results because individuals make resolutions--our yearly ritual of self-renewal--and never tell anyone, meaning they have no one to encourage them in the endeavor and no accountability to anyone either.

Couldn't it be different if a community of Christians--namely, the local church--took some resolutions from Scripture and together determined to make them part of our everyday lives? Scattered throughout the New Testament are resolutions of the "let us" variety written to Christians. These resolutions fall into three categories: Our relationship with God, our relationship with others, and our behavior...

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