Wednesday’s thoughs
Reverend Miller is preaching on Sunday, October 28th. Ray is going to speak to us about the alternating contrast between the things in life that bring us pain, and how those same things bring us extreme joy. He will speak of such events as child birth. He will contrast the pain of having a child with the joy that comes when the child is born and the pain is all but forgotten.
Ray has told me some things about his sermon but much of it will be a surprise. I know that there is a surprise coming in the middle of the sermon.
These stewardship sermons are aimed at helping us prepare for November 4th which is our “Commitment Sunday”. Ray will help us think about our church and our involvement in it. He will help us look at the struggles we have in the Christian Churches today, and he will have us consider the ways in which our struggles have a certain nobility. The pain of committee work, the debates about what we can do and the disappointment at what we are unable to accomplish, and the interaction with people as we learn to work together for the greater good is the nature of the church. But there have been accomplishments. There have been moments of ecstasy. We have almost completely funded the Columbarium project, we have a worshipping congregation in Wellington, we have sent a work team to Guatamala, and our adult, youth, and children’s program is the best.
We have thought “out of the box” and have moved beyond the conventional to the creative.
I am writing this “build a sermon” for Ray. I want you to know how much we owe to this retired clergyman. He has done a great deal for us to get us to look “out of the box” and to try some things we wouldn’t have tried.
Charles Schuster
If you would like to email Ray with ideas write him at raym@lpbroadband.net
