Philippians 1:6 reads, “I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ.” I’ll never forget responding to God’s love for me in Jesus Christ as an eighth grader in the Communicant’s class. I’ll never forget the Sunday School teachers in the front rows smiling with tears of joy when I shared my Statement of Faith in the worship service. I’ll never forget how Jesus walked with me and saved me countless times during the detours of my fifty-three years of life since that Communicant’s class experience. And, yes, I see God’s ongoing completion of what God started when I was thirteen years old.
Grace and our individual lives are built on the foundation of Jesus Christ. The sovereignty, providence, and presence of God is always at work in order to complete God’s purpose for each one of us and Grace Presbyterian Church. What an exciting time.
Our Interim Pastor Journey focuses on adaptive change. Today, at our Interim Pastor Journey Town Hall Meeting Step 2, I’ll introduce principles associated with adaptive change. Those principles are observations, interpretations, asking questions, and making interventions in measured ways.
A challenge before us is declining church attendance.
The question today is: How would you describe Grace to someone you wanted to attend with you?
I’ll see you after worship in the Great Room for our Town Hall Meeting Step 2 and the “Cinco de Mayo” themed luncheon.
On the journey of Christian discipleship and spiritual formation with you, I remain faithfully yours,
Steve
The Rev. Dr. Steven M. Marsh
Interim Pastor
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