I am amazed at what the Lord is calling FCL to, a new era in the life of our church. We have been given this crazy opportunity to be apart of something big, where we are more than a meeting place, with cool ideas, cool music, relevant messages, but God is calling us to be a place for the hurting and the lost, to be a place that shares the truth of the Gospel message in a way that makes Him look glorious and His name supreme. This is not about FCL or me, or any of our other pastor's, this is about the name of the Lord, this is about His glory being what consumes us.
This fact has driven me through hard times and through times when I think it would be easier to hang up the preaching jeans. In an age where success is determined by numbers and growth, it is easy to become discouraged and forget what He has called us to. But the reality is that the Bible calls us to depth, it calls us to pursue Him as our one and only. This is what Paul reminds us in Philippians 3:7-8-"But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ..."
If I could sum up my desire for myself and for our FCL family and for the church world-wide that would be it. To see men and women growing close to Christ, placing faith in Him, and that pushing us to follow Him. So as we begin a new season for FCL, one that I pray will produce this mindset, I ask for your support and partnership, for your unity in prayers, in the Gospel message, and for your faithfulness and consistency in difficult time. That we may be men and women of the Word, not creativity or ingenuity, but may our strength and passion be found in the glory of God going forth.
With our dependency and hope in the Lord, may this be what we encourage one another toward, and may we look back and be able to say with Paul, "I want Christ more then anything."
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- We are not perfect, but we have been saved by the one who is. He did it by grace alone, through faith alone, on the basis of Christ alone, for the glory of God alone, revealed infallibly by the Scripture alone.
Wow! So encouraging. I am excited about what God has in store for our FCL family and can't wait to see the things He wants to do in us and through us. To Him be the glory, forever and ever amen!
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