Our Sovereign Savior, who has built His Church from sinners loved in eternity and saved by grace in time, has also ordained that His elect bride be led and cared for by Elders and Deacons.

In 2 Timothy 2:1-3, the Apostle Paul instructed Timothy to lead the Ephesian Church in the effort to identify and commission such men.  In this series of verses, the central exhortation is to “entrust” the Apostolic Gospel and the Church to “faithful men” (v. 2).  As it is certainly true that there would be no Church without a Savior, neither could Christ’s bride exist without “faithful men.”

This coming Lord’s Day, it will be our great honor and solemn duty to do what our Savior has commanded.  We will be ordaining, or setting apart and authorizing, seven men, seven “faithful men,” who will care for and lead the Church that Jesus has redeemed.

Our sermon will come from this passage taken from Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy.  And then, having heard the Word, we will all participate in a service of ordination as we commission these brothers to carry out their God-ordained duties as Ruling Elders and Deacons.

As we do this, our hearts should full to the brim with gratitude that the Lord has been ever so faithful to raise up the leaders we have needed over these nineteen years that we have been in existence as a body of believers.  Praise His name for His faithfulness and preserving grace!