Rescued

Sunday morning retuning:  So what is God calling you to do as you are going?  Great challenge from missionary to Japan, Rev. Alan Kropp on Sunday.  What was God saying to you?

I was planning for this weekends services last week as the images from the Boston Marathon and the explosion in Texas rattled through my mind.  Pastor Paul Armitage sent a link to a video that helps to put a proper perspective on all those things.  I have decided to use it this Sunday morning in our Engage services and I want to share it with you here. 

Rescued

Powerful, right?  What a beautiful reminder of the work of Christ in each of our lives and the lives of every person on the planet.  In the face of the greatest atrocities known to man when can stand knowing the rescue that is possible in the greatest of all men, the Son of Man, Son of God, Jesus.  What a comfort!

But how many do not know Him and all He offers?  How many women will go to sleep tonight in Trumbull County not sure where rescue is going to come from for her and her children in the midst of their struggle?  How many addicts will run themselves ragged to get that next high, only to come down again?  How many children will go to sleep tonight not certain of when or what they will eat tomorrow?  How many men will look to another relationship/toy/bottle for the fulfillment they long for?

Will you pray with me that we continue to become a community of faith that offers that rescue, not only for souls, but for people?  Jesus is the Great Rescuer, and there are many yet to hear.  Will you pray for more workers for the harvest field…and then pick up your implement and get to work in yours?  May Sunday morning become a place where more and more people are rescued, and may we become a church that partners with the rescued and the Rescuer to complete that work in their lives.

We all need it.  Just like this song we will sing Sunday says so well.

Rescue

Jesus, we need You to come to our rescue.  There is nowhere else we can go that will provide what our souls are longing for and can only find in You.  Help us to be a people and a place that propogate “rescue”.  There are many who need to hear.  In Jesus name.  Amen.

In Christ,

Pastor Timothy