Why should anyone become a Christian?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, happy new year. I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio

program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the

Christian life every day. We'd love to hear from you. Here's our phone number. It's 8333-the-core.

That's 1-833-843-243-2673. You can also post your question on our social media sites, and of course,

you can always email us your question at questions

at core Christianity.com. And as we kick off a brand new year, I'm curious, Adriel,

do you do the New Year's resolution thing or do you just kind of say it's pointless?

I say it's pointless. I mean, if I'm, if I'm wanting to start the year on a bad note, you know, where I just make promises to myself that I'm not going to keep, and maybe I'll do that.

But no, I mean, I guess every new year, I am sort of thinking like, oh, man, I want to get better at this or do this a little bit more.

And as is often the case, I think,

I usually do okay for maybe the first month or two. And then it just kind of tapers off. I don't,

I don't know. Maybe some of our callers can reach out to us and say, hey, that's not the case for me.

And I've found the trick to really staying committed to those New Year's resolutions, whatever those are, but

I have not discovered it yet. How about you, Bill? Well, it's interesting because all the research shows just what you said by the time that by time February 1st rolls around most people, I think like 60% of jettisoned their entire resolution. One thing I've tried in

recent years is a little different approach. It's like what is the one thing that God would want

me to work on regarding my character in the coming year? Just that one thing. And then like, you know,

I figure out what that one thing is like, I want to be more kind or more, more gentle, more patient, whatever that is. And then I'll, you know, I figure out what that one thing is like, I want to be more kind

or more gentle, more patient, whatever that is.

And then I'll write that, you know, on my like my bathroom mirror, my fridge or whatever.

And then as I go by, okay, this is what I'm working on this year, that one thing.

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