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Weekly Devotional Message from Dr. David Jones
WORK DAY – TOMORROW AT WCPC BEGINNING AT 8:00 A.M.
HANDBELL CONCERT TOMORROW NIGHT AT 7:30 P.M. IN THE SANCTUARY. Strikepoint of Texas, an auditioned community handbell team, will be performing their spring concert of sacred and secular handbell music. No tickets needed, however, a love offering will be taken at the concert. Nursery care will be provided. Come join us for a unique concert!
April 25, 2008
Dear family and friends of WCPC:
Last week I started meeting with the officers-elect who will begin their ministry on the Session and the Board of Deacons in June. I’ve always enjoyed these particular classes. One reason is to hear the stories of these men and women God has called into leadership. Their stories, their faith statements are powerful witnesses to God’s grace and mercy found in Jesus Christ.
We also spend time focusing on the theological statements that have shaped the Presbyterian or Reformed faith. One of those beliefs is Predestination or Election. We hold as Presbyterians the belief that God does for us what we cannot do for ourselves, calling us into relationship through the power of the Holy Spirit. That God initiates the relationship, sustains it, and will never, never let us go. God’s gift to us is reconciliation through God’s Son Jesus and we do nothing to deserve or warrant it. Everything we do then is a response to what God has done for us. When you think about it, it can’t be any other way, lest we think by our actions we somehow merit God’s favor. We don’t need to merit it. We already have it. And since it’s a gift, we can never lose it.
Because as Presbyterians we have such a strong emphasis on what God does for us, we’ve not been as strongly committed to evangelism. After all, we reason, we don’t save anyone, God does. God does of course and often we don’t even understand ourselves how God brings it about, but there is one thing I am confident of. Often the tool God uses are our stories. As we grow in relationship with other people, as we share our stories, of life and faith, God uses those stories as a means of grace. God uses our stories to call others into relationship!
Don’t be afraid to share your story. Our stories may be the greatest gift we can give to another!
Ephesians 1: 3 – 5 – “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love. He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will…”
Your pastor,
David Jones
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