(Revelation 3:15-16)\xa0 \u201cI know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!\xa0 So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold--I am about to spit you out of my mouth.\u201d
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\u2022\xa0\xa0\xa0 Hot \u2013 You are growing.
(2 Thessalonians 1:3)\xa0 \u201cWe ought always to thank God for you, brothers, and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love every one of you has for each other is increasing.\u201d
\u2022\xa0\xa0\xa0 Cold \u2013 You do not know God yet.
(2 Corinthians 4:4)\xa0 \u201cThe god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.\u201d
\u2022\xa0\xa0\xa0 Lukewarm \u2013 You are drifting.
(Hebrews 2:1)\xa0 \u201cWe must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.\u201d
My Spiritual Goals for 2010
What does the ultimate spiritual life look like for you?
How to Get There
1. Know God intimately.
(Jeremiah 29:13-14)\xa0 \u201cYou will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.\xa0 I will be found by you,\u201d declares the LORD.
(1 Corinthians 15:34)\xa0 \u201cCome back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning\u2026\u201d
2. Share Christ effectively.
(2 Corinthians 5:19-20)\xa0 \u201cGod was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men\u2019s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.\xa0 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.\u201d
3. Connect with others regularly.
(Ephesians 2:19 LB)\xa0 \u201c\u2026You are a member of God\u2019s very own family\u2026and you belong in God\u2019s household with every other Christian.\u201d
(James 5:16)\xa0 \u201cTherefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.\u201d
4. Grow yourself daily.
(Hebrews 6:1)\xa0 \u201cTherefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity\u2026\u201d
(Proverbs 23:12)\xa0 \u201cApply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.\u201d
5.\xa0 Serve people passionately.
(1 Peter 4:10)\xa0 \u201cEach one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God\u2019s grace in its various forms.\u201d
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