Our Season of Transitions continues!
Tomorrow we get to say thank you to a couple of staff members who are leaving us over the next couple of weeks; and we get to welcome a new member to our team that is going to help us launch our new 11:00 a.m. worship service! You won't want to miss all of that fun and excitement!
It is also Music Recognition Sunday! We will celebrate and recognize everyone who works so hard to usher us into and through worship week after week. Don't miss it!! I'm particularly looking forward to the choral postlude, "Praise His Holy Name!" You can check out a preview from rehearsal on our Facebook page,
here
.
Through July and August, the great stories of our faith will help anchor the sermons in worship. Tomorrow we will hear the story of Saul, becoming Paul. You can read that story from the Acts of the Apostles
here
. Paul is an incredible figure, and I recommend N.T. Wright's attempt at his biography, which is of course available on
Amazon
:)
N.T. Wright asks:
"What was Paul trying to do?...
Why did he carry on relentlessly...
...and why did it work?
Why did the movement he started... become the church?"
These are powerful questions to ask as we go about our own work of building a movement here in Eugene. A movement to bring more light and justice to our neighborhood. A movement focused on studying and practicing the way of Jesus, because we believe studying and practicing the way of Jesus will transform the world.
That journey continues with worship tomorrow! I can't wait to see you there!
God bless you and keep you!
~ Pastor Adam
