Our service this Sunday was Soap box Sunday. This is when people get up to speak their minds about a certain subject that is on their minds.
In years past this Sunday could get real heated with different subjects. This Sunday was quit subdued. People who got up mostly talked about the conference the day before on stewardship. The name of the book was" This Is Not Your Parents Offering Plate" It was centered on a new way to looking at stewardship in churches.
We were to read the book before hand so we would really understand the theory. Well I did and I got more out of the workshop in doing that.The people who got up in church were talking about what they had learned that day.
My discovery that was oh so profound for me would just be amatter of speaking to someone else.The workshop I went to was on asking members for money for the church. I got wrangle in because all the others were taken by my group. So I went. I the person who would be the last person on earth to ask anyone for anything.
Well I have to say I had an epiphany and that is I am asking for my church not me. I realized that my love for my church would lunge me forward to do what ever I needed to do. That was an eye opening experience for me.
I would be representing my church not me and corresponding hopefully my love for my church.
That was my own private epiphany how much I love SWUU meaning the whole lot .The people, the pastor and our New Building you name it.
No greater love that one person have than to lay down their life for their friend. Me getting out of my own way and letting my concern be for my church members of today and for the future would be my expression of deep and abiding love.
Where there was fear there is now peace!
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