This morning during worship as Iglesia Christiana Ebenezer celebrated their graduates, I looked at my watch and realized at that very moment the First Christian Church, Stillwater was doing the very same thing. It seems our worship on this day spanned the miles and connected us in a number of very specific ways. In our respective places: we all celebrated the accomplishments of our youth and their hard work and persistence, we all shared together in the Lord’s Supper, we all heard scripture, we all proclaimed the gospel, we all sang songs of praise, and we all prayed. In my mind and heart I was in both places at once.
It strikes me how similar people are even though we may speak different languages, have different customs, live in environmentally different atmospheres (driving to South Texas we went from May weather to August weather in a day!). In particular, we are all very proud of the accomplishments of our children and our youth. We are excited by the possibilities that are open to them. We are concerned for their safety and hope that they make good decisions. And we pray that God will be with them on their journeys of life.
God bless you as we are away from you, though connected in worship and embraced as one body of Christ by the Holy Spirit.
Shalom,
Pastor Owen
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