We have a new associate pastor.
He seems a teenager, to these old eyes, but he’s OK, though he needs to spend some time working on his self confidence.
Sunday, he spoke of waking in the night to go to the bathroom, and how it was like the Catholic vision of Purgatory. The idea that you reach around the doorframe and turn on the light so you can slowly let your eyes become accustomed to the brightness. That purgatory was that time when we allowed our eyes, clouded with the sleep of sin, to gradually become capable of standing in G-d’s light.
A pretty good metaphor, actually. I hope he develops into the kind of guy who has that sort of inspiration all the time.
Congrats on the new pastor. Try not to scare him.
Off topic, but I did go back and check my water heater and furnace for termocouples. They have none. Modern igniters. So, no need to stock up. But now I know with certainty.
Well done that man!
I’m jealous. I attend a tiny (40 on Sunday morning is about average for us) Southern Baptist Church.
Our pastor of 10 years answered a call to another Church back in June.
Being so small our pastor must necessarily be bi-vocational.
I am one of 5 elected to the search committee (on top of leading music every other Sunday on average, teaching Sunday school and stepping into the gap to lead a study with our small group of regular Wednesday night attendees).
I’m finding frightening and as the process drags on frightening. My biggest fear is I will ignore God’s will in haste to make a decision and get this over with.
So….please, I covet your prayers.
Typed the wrong word. It’s becoming frustrating as the process goes along.
I was grumbling to my wife the other day “how about we just go find a megaChurch so I can anonymously blend into the crowd”.
Scott: G-d can use the humblest tools to do His work. Do your best. G-d will do the rest.
Calvinist position: It might be His will that you make a decision in haste.
Glad to hear some young folks are coming into the ministry… They are needed!
Last stanza of the hymn “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”:
Great Father of glory, pure Father of light,
Thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight;
All laud we would render: O help us to see
’Tis only the splendour of light hideth thee.
Always makes me tear up when we sing it in church.