Sometime I feel like it is my duty as pastor to paint a bright picture even if I can’t see it myself. I have always maintained hope, believing that God has bigger and better things in store for Bartimaeus Baptist Temple, but I’ll confess sometimes I feel like a hypocrite standing up there saying that when I can’t see the way forward. I still choose to trust. I still choose to believe, and I think this could be the year we start to see new fruit. It starts just by doing what we can with what we have, and that is what we’re doing. Let’s give it our all!

This Sunday, I’ll be wrapping up John Chapter 17 with verses 20-26. Here Jesus goes back to the theme of unity and says it 3 times. He prays for us the same kind of unity that He has with the Father. I don’t think that’s possible until He returns, but we sure are a long way from it today. Events of the past week make that abundantly clear, and I am saddened and angered by what I have seen. I pray in agreement with Jesus that we would all be one, so that the world will know that there is one true God and the way to know Him is to know Jesus.

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Love you all.