I am SOO excited for this weekend. Our new Associate Pastor Bo Burgener will preach this Sunday. What’s so great about this is that Bo will be the next Pastor for Youth ministry, which includes college/20-something ministry (my age group). It is also the best time for him to come on board because camp is comming up in July, and it is the biggest event of the year for Dundee.
On another note, I am taken back by this whole process because I was given the opportunity to be a part of something so great. I have been on the Associate Pastor committee for the last nine months and have seen this whole process of hiring a new minister in action. It’s amazing to me that God would give me the opportunity to pick my next pastor. The major thing I have thought about is Why, Why would God pick me? What does He want me to learn from all of this? What do I have that makes me the person for the job?
The only answer I can come up with is that I love the Lord and in doing His work, it doesn’t matter if I am capable.
“For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth (as indeed there are many ‘gods’ and many ‘lords’), yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.” –1 Corinthians 8:5-6
He is capable. If I live through Jesus, I am capable, because I am no longer just myself. I am filled with the Spirit of the Lord and nothing can stop the Spirit. The Lord has watched over our committee and I am thankful. He gave us His Spirit from the very begining of this process. He has brought us together in a way that I will never forget. I am so happy to have been apart of this committee. The bonds I have made with the others in this committee won’t be broken. Praise the Lord for his unchanging love for us all in the world, love that gave us His Son to die for all the sins of humanity.