Would you like to know what my #1 job as Pastor of CLC is?Colossians 1:28-29 (NIV)
We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone mature, perfect, complete in Christ. 29 To this end I labor, struggling with all Christ’s energy, which so powerfully works in me. Colossians 1:28-29 (NIV)
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This means that my main job is to do everything I can to help you see and know that God is stopping at nothing, at every moment using circumstances, pain, joys, challenges, sermons, his Word, your friends, your enemies, failures, successes, temptations, yearnings, dreams, frustrations, good attitude and bad attitude—and much much more-----at every moment-- . . . . . He is using the entirety of your life to shape you into the person God has created you to be from before the foundation of the world. He is using all these “tools” to restore you to your original intended “shape”.
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader is coming to theaters on December 10. Here’s a fantastic spiritual exericise for you to try: Purchase the book of the same name (in the Narnia series). Read it and ponder over the section where Eustice Scrub is changed by a loving God. It’s perhaps the most powerful and poignant description of God’s shaping that you will ever read!!!!
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Pastor Jeff,
ReplyDeleteThank you for taking your "job" so seriously.You have helped me see that God is using the entirety of my life to shape me into the person He wants me to be. I continue to come up short but when you're in relationship with God your short coming don't define who you are.
Pastor, Thanks for your transparency on Sunday, August 15th. I did not feel I had a choice when I became pregnant after being raped by my ex-boyfriend in college. I couldn't believe that I had an abortion, but just knew that my mom's treatment of me could be transferred into another little life (I was so emotionally unstable and angry). Mom used to tell me that I was a mistake and she should have aborted me. My dad used to abuse her (domestic violence). Today I advocate for victims and train people to be empowered to believe in hope. Since hearing your beautiful news on Sunday, I related to your family in some ways. I share Sarah's birthday...I was born on 6/22/69. I have not been able to conceive a child and my husband and I have been married going on 18 years this month. Adoption is not desired by my husband, so I don't push anymore. I cried on Sunday because I was so, so, blessed by the courage of the young lady who had Sarah and the wonderful team commitment you and Kathy made together to adopt. I am blessed for you and your blessing. You have no idea how awesome it was to cry of happiness and not guilt for once in my life.
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