Greeting FB Members and Friends
Thanks for joining me for another edition of Fine Points and welcome back. Fine Point Monday gives me an opportunity to share some thoughts with you that I have had time to reflect upon after our meeting Sunday. Sunday School attendance is well below where it should be and I continue to hope for the day when our Sunday School classes are overflowing. Also, we had a very stimulating and enlightening discussion in BTU yesterday as well as we continue to move forward with our study of “Lifestyle Priorities”.
I beseech you to encourage one another to attend both Sunday School and BTU and reach out to others so we can all grow in Christ together. I plan to take some time one day this week to see the movie “Black Panther” with my wife. It is a family friendly action movie that is historically and culturally significant and I encourage all who can afford to go and have the time to see it. If we are to stay culturally relevant, there are some things we need to experience in order to better relate to the people and culture we are charge to reach. Speaking of reaching people, I would like to share a few thoughts from yesterday’s message “Representing Christ”.
A representative stands, acts or speaks on behalf of someone else. That someone could be a person, organization, company or government just to mention a few. In our case that someone is Christ. A representative should reflect the mind and thoughts of the one being represented. The bible teaches us that Christians are charged with reflecting the mind and mission of Christ. Christ was on a mission to reconcile mankind and God. He was charged with bridging the gap caused by sin and disobedience that was between us. As the perfect mediator between God and man, He was able to break down all the walls of partition that stood between us and God and now the path to reconciliation is free and clear and open to all who will avail themselves to it.
Now that Christ is gone back to be with the Father, He has left us with the task of bringing this message of reconciliation to the world as His ambassadors or representatives. A real, true and good representative of Christ will reflect the mind, thought and character of Christ. And if we prove to be the type of representative Christ approves of, we can be assured that Christ will represent us before the Father. Some people are proud of who and what they represent. As Christians, no one has any reason to be prouder of whom and what we represent than we have. So, let’s all do a better job at representing our Lord and Savior and be the type of representative for Christ we would want someone to be for us. Let’s continue to remember all of our sick and shut-in in our prayers and especially G. Hawkins as she continues to recover from surgery. Well, that’s all for now. I hope to see you in the theater or next Sunday. So, until then,
Blessings and Peace
Pastor Jordan
