Walking in Love, As Christ Loved Us
This week’s eNewsletter feature story
is written by Caryl Weinberg,
FPCE mission director.
Greetings!
About every two weeks, Pastor Ray meets with program staff members individually as part of a new practice recommended by Ministry Architects, our strategic planning consultants. One of the questions we each address during the meeting is “What are the celebrations from our ministry that we want to share?” As I thought about it this week, I immediately thought of the quiet, unsung, often unnoticed volunteers of our First Friends ministry, which reaches out to area refugees.
In several sermons from Ephesians 4 and 5, Pastor Ray has preached on “putting on the love of Christ” as a way of life. And he spoke about how “loving God and loving neighbor becomes the ethical framework for how we live publicly and privately.” It sounds easy if taken at a superficial level – or even simply on the public level. But, in reality, these words should challenge each of us at the deepest level of who we are, especially in places where what we do and say (and even think) isn’t seen or acknowledged by fellow believers.
