A Year of Surrender

Surrender is not in most peoples vocabulary. The natural thing for people to do is to fight to the end. The goal is to never give up. So when we challenge people to take this year and surrender it is going against every fabric of their being. Yet surrender is necessary in order to live as a follower of Christ.

The word surrender simply means to give up. The question is what are we to surrender to? The answer to that questions is easy--we are to surrender to God. We fall before him and say, "God I give up my life to you, do with it what you will, I am all yours."

At least that is the challenge from Jesus. He challenges His followers to surrender to Him.

"If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me." Luke 9:23

We must surrender daily to Jesus. We must daily deny ourselves and follow him.

This year of surrender means our leadership is going to surrender to Jesus, our church is going to surrender to Jesus and we are asking you to surrender to Jesus. Trust him with all that you have and follow him.