I am so glad you work with your own people. Specially in these last few years I have being noticing how sick spiritually the American people is. I love America, and I wish for it to be fixed. I wonder: why do so many churches invest so much in missions abroad (nothing wrong with it, they need Jesus too), when so many Americans are sick and blind spiritually? Poverty, victimhood, pessimism, lack of morals, values, principals, integrity, … lack of Jesus! I’ve being thinking even harder about the lack of investment in the spirituality of the American people as I just started to read “Hillbilly Elegy”, by J.D. Vance. I know this would be an extensive and wearyingly exhausting work. I have students who don’t even know what Easter is… but isn’t this work that must be done?
Congratulations Michael on a remarkable year! May He guide you as you step out into the new facility. BTW you are the first pastor I have ever known who moved his church to another state!
I am so glad you work with your own people. Specially in these last few years I have being noticing how sick spiritually the American people is. I love America, and I wish for it to be fixed. I wonder: why do so many churches invest so much in missions abroad (nothing wrong with it, they need Jesus too), when so many Americans are sick and blind spiritually? Poverty, victimhood, pessimism, lack of morals, values, principals, integrity, … lack of Jesus! I’ve being thinking even harder about the lack of investment in the spirituality of the American people as I just started to read “Hillbilly Elegy”, by J.D. Vance. I know this would be an extensive and wearyingly exhausting work. I have students who don’t even know what Easter is… but isn’t this work that must be done?
I congratulate you for this!
Yes, congratulations on a great year. I’m very thankful for your clear thinking and partnership in the gospel!
Thank you Tom! Thankful for you as well. You part of the new church plant with Andy?
Yes! We have our covenanting service this Sunday! Pray for us!
Congratulations Michael on a remarkable year! May He guide you as you step out into the new facility. BTW you are the first pastor I have ever known who moved his church to another state!
Haha yeah I've never heard of it either. Crazy that it's only ten minutes away