Missing In Action

My apologies for not posting in so long. Over the past couple of months I have accepted a call as an assistant pastor at Fair Haven Primitive Baptist Church in Tifton, Georgia. My time and energies have been wrapped up in ending an old and beginning a new secular job, packing up my existing home and renovating a new one, and for the first time I'm designing a new web site for my new Church (www.fairhavenpbc.org), and besides all this the care of the Church!

This new chapter, as an assistant pastor is a daunting one for me. I'm reminded often of Paul's reflection on his ministry, "Who is sufficient for these things?" (2 Corinthians 2:16). Ofcourse I'm thankful for his answer to himself, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;" (2 Corinthians 3:5).

My cousin Chris Strevel, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Buford, Ga., told me once that the Church did not exist for me, but I exist for the Church. I'm thankful for this kind of godly wisdom and hope to employ it in all of my labor for the Lord and His bride. On the one hand it is so easy to be overcome with despair over the immensity and gravity of this calling. On the other, how easy it is to think it's all about me. Satan has many devices and my flesh is always a willing accomplice.

May God give me grace to rest entirely on Him and His sufficiency and may my motto ever be the motto of John the Baptist – "He must increase, but I must decrease." (John 3:30).