Lent--A Time to Remember to Follow Jesus
It's hard to believe that it is already the Second Sunday in Lent! Easter comes extraordinarily early this year, and we've begun preparing already with our 40 days of preparation. (If you're having trouble with the math, we count 40 days from Ash Wednesday to Maundy Thursday--but Sunday's don't count, each Sunday is a little Easter).
This coming Thursday, we will meet for a regular Church Council meeting, and I hope (and plan) to have a new Leadership Team for us to vote on by that time. God is good to us, has given us a variety of gifts, and we are embracing some changes in the way we organize church life here at Elm Street so we can better fulfill God's call to walk with Jesus in mission and ministry in our wider community.
That's the key, each Lent we have the opportunity to think about whether we're really walking with Jesus--and as on Ash Wednesday we hear the call to "Repent, and Believe the Gospel" (or the version I like even better "Turn Away from Sin, and Be Faithful to the Gospel"), we can take this time to refocus our walk with Jesus Christ, and focus on the things that really matter!
I hope to see many of you on Thursday, and pray that God will keep you safe and carry you through even the most challenging of times!
This coming Thursday, we will meet for a regular Church Council meeting, and I hope (and plan) to have a new Leadership Team for us to vote on by that time. God is good to us, has given us a variety of gifts, and we are embracing some changes in the way we organize church life here at Elm Street so we can better fulfill God's call to walk with Jesus in mission and ministry in our wider community.
That's the key, each Lent we have the opportunity to think about whether we're really walking with Jesus--and as on Ash Wednesday we hear the call to "Repent, and Believe the Gospel" (or the version I like even better "Turn Away from Sin, and Be Faithful to the Gospel"), we can take this time to refocus our walk with Jesus Christ, and focus on the things that really matter!
I hope to see many of you on Thursday, and pray that God will keep you safe and carry you through even the most challenging of times!
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