The end of one year and the start of another. Everyone goes their separate ways to rest, recover and to get ready for the next term. Now would be the easy time to slack off, but instead let us use the summer to build faith and make plans for the new year. Let us take time to imagine what our incomparable God could do.

Looking back over the last twelve months I'm very much encouraged.
When I spoke at Bath CU's last meeting of the year in May, I took the risk of asking how many present had become Christians in over that year. How incredibly encouraging to see the number of hands raised. We stood together at the close of the book of Hebrews, confronted with a simply command - 'let us go to him'.

Him of course is the subject of the book of Hebrews.  He is God's supreme revelation and the inheritor of all things.
He is the one who made the world by speaking. He is the radiance of the glory of God – the exact imprint of God's nature. The one to whom to look to see precisely what God is like. The magnificient manifestation of God.

He was obedient, his every work fulfilling the word of God. He is the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him. The only way, door, gate, road. He holds his priesthood by the power of an indestructible life and is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him since he always lives to make intercession for them.
Always pleading the cause of his people on the basis of his own never changing death. He is Jesus Christ!

And the writer says let us go to him. Let us go to Jesus. Let us go outside of the camp and suffer with him. Lindsay Brown's book Shining Like Stars gives us a taste of how that can happen. Of the students in Mexico banned from meeting on campus who hired the morgue to hold a meeting on the resurrection. Of the Exeter students who a few years ago said 'let us go to him' and imagined that God could enable them to take their small carol service venue that wasn't even getting filled and replace it with the football ground to create the biggest Carol Service in the South West. What would it mean to go to him like them?
What will it mean for us to step out in 2008/9, to break the mould, to do whatever it takes to make Jesus famous?

Let us go to Jesus.