Monday Reflections...President's Day 2020...sipping green tea at Dunkin


President's Day 2020 and a very quiet morning at Dunkin.  A holiday so the usual crowd is brewing coffee at home this morning.  After a full weekend, I am thankful for some time to collect my thoughts.  The state of Maine also has a week off of school in February so this might be a really different week around town.  

 There is no perfect church because there are no perfect people.  The people of God make up the church and we mess up at times.  Sometimes we do what we are not suppose to do; we don't respond the way we are suppose to respond; and we don't portray the One who saved us.  What do we do then?

 The sermon this week looked at the vision of the church.  What should we and they see when we and they look at the occupants of a church and especially those who profess faith in Jesus Christ?  The Bible helps us out with lists that we find the book of Ephesians and Galatians.  Those lists are scary because we probably have been on the "south" side of each of them at some point or another.  What is the upside to this?

 The upside is that we know when to confess.  If we have been prideful instead of humble, then we confess.  If we have been harsh instead of gentle, then we confess.  If we have been speaking the truth without love instead of speaking the truth dispensing it with love, then we confess.  I think you get the idea.

 We have been given by God how we are to be on the front side and then we are also given by God how we are to respond on the back side when we fall on our faces.  The key is that they see us not only portraying Christ like qualities but also that they see us confess when we come short.  

 I end with a touching story by Rebecca Manley Pippert.  Click the link to read it from the source.  So many watch while few respond.

 Adam



A simple man serving a great God and the local pastor of Stillwater Community Chapel (stillwater-chapel.org). We are in our 38th year of full time ministry. God directed us to this local body of believers on the Western Range of the Rockies to grow with them in mission and mindedness of Christ.

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