What a wonderful jump start we have had to this brand new year! Beginning on the very first Sunday of 2010, our church has adopted the theme, “First Things First.” We’ve learned that the successful life is not so much a matter of “prioritizing our schedules” as it is of “scheduling our priorities.”

Prioritizing a schedule assumes that we already have the right duties in it, albeit sometimes in the wrong order.  Scheduling our priorities means that we figure out what Biblical essentials should be in our lives–whether they exist now or not–and then determine to put those priorities in our schedules first. First things first!

In keeping with this year’s theme, we have heard messages on the need to “seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.” A life fraught with worry is typically one that has lost its focus on God and His righteousness. Additionally we have learned the principle of “radical simplification.” We love God by serving people. Jesus encapsulated the sum of a disciple’s responsibility in that concept! First things first! How sad that in the multiplicity of tasks performed in local churches for the Lord, that we miss sometimes the simplicity of Jesus’ teaching…

This past week our church focused on the first responsibility of a believer: baptism. Collectively we answered the question, “What doth hinder me to be baptized?” We learned that nothing should take precedence in a true believer’s life over the initial step of obedience to the Lord through baptism. To the glory of God, scores responded to the simple Bible message by getting baptized this past Sunday or scheduling a time in the immediate future to do so!

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