This is a Test!!!
This is a test! No, it is not a test of the emergency broadcast system. This is
a test for all of you as members of First Christian Church. When your pastor is
incapacitated as I am, are you willing to fill in with pastoral roles? Are you willing
to make the effort to be in contact with our special needs members or even to offer
to visit them?
This test question becomes even more critical as the search for a settled
pastor has begun. How will you step up to lend him or her a helping hand?
I am grateful because I have already been made aware of the many ways
some of you have shared your talents and gifts of caring and compassion.
One of the things that I have been made quite aware of were the ways in
which your former pastor took on far more responsibility than she should have.
She allowed it to happen. You allowed it to happen.
In order for all of us to have a thriving, vital church that is committed to
serving our Lord and Savior, we need to be continually asking ourselves, what are
the ways that I can be the hands and feet and spirit of our Lord and Savior? The
answer to this question will certainly make a difference once you have discerned
and called your next settled pastor.
You have what it takes because you are his blessed children.
Again, thank you for all that are doing in Christ’s name and for his church.
