New Opportunities

<p>Good morning, Five Minute Families. This is the first week of 2023. We hope you had a wonderful time of celebration (or sleep) to ring in the new year! A new year brings new hope, new ideas, and new opportunities. For those listening to us here on the local radio station, we hope you will consider the new idea of volunteering with us as a family in one of the various ways we have available - during a retreat event, working on the facility, or working behind the scenes. If you, your family, your youth group, small group, or civic organization would be interested in helping us help families transform their lives from survival to thriving, please contact us at clearviewretreat.org.</p><p>For others listening, we hope you will take the new opportunity to join us for a family camp, marriage retreat, or one of our other program offerings. The calendar is out, and we would love to chat with you about booking an event to build your family’s discipleship strategy and biblical community. </p><p>As 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!” If we are a new creation, then we have new opportunities abounding every. Single. Day. So, let’s look at some Scripture to inspire us in the new opportunities we will see in 2023. </p><p>Galatians 6:10 points out how we can focus on the PURPOSE of new opportunities. “Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us work for the good of all, especially for those who belong to the household of faith.” We have a purpose of doing good for all. For ourselves, for our families, for our biblical communities, and more.</p><p>Ephesians 5:16-18 shows that we must be willing to take ACTION. The Common English Bible states it this way, “Take advantage of every opportunity because these are evil times.” ‘Take advantage’ means that we must take action; we must be ready to move forward when God shows us the next step He wants our family to take.</p><p>If we are taking advantage of opportunities and seeing the purp