Advice from Joe
Good morning, Church! We are blessed to have Jeff Walling from Pepperdine University with us today. He’ll preach during worship and teach a combined youth and adult Bible class at 11:00 in the auditorium. If you don’t normally stay for class, today’s the day to start building a better habit and stick around. You won’t regret it!
Some of you may remember Jeff from November 2015 when he was our youth rally speaker. I remember him from way back in the ‘80s when he was a youth minister in California beginning to have a growing impact in Churches of Christ. His messages have always encouraged and challenged me to love God more and live more like Jesus, and I am excited that he is able to be with us again.
When I ministered in the South and the Midwest, it was pretty easy to get good guest speakers, because the church is so much larger that there is a deep pool of godly men to draw from. In New England, you already know that the church is small relative to the population, and sometimes we might feel a little isolated. Sometimes as Christians we may even feel like foreigners in a strange land, and it can seem like we’re not able to have much of an impact. But God does his best work with small, imperfect things.
In Jeff’s sermon this morning, we’re going to hear about the goodness of God demonstrated in the life of a man who started as a slave but whose dreams came true. As you listen, think about the ways God has already begun blessing you, and dream about the ways God might be working through you in the lives of the next generation. New England needs more dreamers like that, and God is already working through us with even bigger things to come.
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