Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
This coming Lord’s Day will be a very significant one for our Church family as we witness the faithfulness of our God to raise up leaders and servants among His people. The five men that you have nominated and elected as Officers of the Church will be ordained (authorized for ministry) and formally installed into their respective Offices of Elder and Deacon. Our ascended Lord Jesus continues His ministry of giving gifts to His Church for her edification, and to further advance her mission in the world as a herald of the Gospel (Ephesians 4:8).
Our sermon text for this special day will be Acts 6:1-7 where Luke (the author of Acts) recounts the selection, ordination, and deployment of the first men to occupy the Office of Deacon. And what is most clear in this familiar passage is the way that the Deacons humbly serve the practical needs of the body—serving food to widows, in this case—while the Apostles, or Elders, served the spiritual needs of the body—the need for the preaching and teaching of the Word and fervent prayer. And such is a blessed picture of the Body of Christ functioning properly for the glory of her Savior and the evangelization of the lost.
What a wonderful and historic day it will surely be! Let us give our hearts to fervent prayer for our time of worship and proclamation, and may the Lord continue to bless His people with love, unity, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit!
Fall Back
Remember to set your clocks back one hour on Saturday night and enjoy that extra hour of sleep!
I love you all so dearly, and look forward to our meeting together in worship on the Lord’s Day!
Mike