Reflecting and Proflecting - Audio

Sunday, December 31, 2023 – New Year's Eve Sunday morning – the message title is "Reflecting and Proflecting." I know, I just made up a new word – Proflecting. What does it mean? When we 'reflect,' we look backward and think about the past, so it only makes sense then to 'proflect' would mean that we would look forward and think about the future. And that's what we're doing today, the last day of 2023. We are reflecting on the year behind and proflecting on the year ahead. There is much to learn as we study our text of Paul's writing to the church of Philippi in Philippians 3:13-14, "Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead." Our past can be a friend or a foe. There are things to learn from our past BEFORE we forget about it that can make our past our friend. And there are things in our past, if we don't deal with them properly, that make our past our foe. We will explain what that means. Then Paul tells us that moving forward into our future will take a determined commitment and will require a "straining and a pressing on" if we are going to end well. We will also talk about what that means. You're encouraged to worship and study with us and learn together what it means to forget what God forgets and press on toward the Heavenward goal.