I am dumbfounded.
I received this note yesterday from the church I led in Seattle for 12 years (I’ve now been away for more than nine):
Dear Van and Shirley,
We felt led this year to select you as our Christmas family, to bless you as God led individuals to respond. We trust that you were blessed by your Christmas celebration and we pray for a fruitful year to come.
Love in Christ,
Your brothers and sisters at Grace Fellowship
I wrote back:
Thank you for the note, for the generous gift, but most of all for helping to restore my faith in the church.
I am grateful to God for what He has done at Grace Fellowship. God bless you all.
May He “enlarge the place of your tent; stretch out the curtains of your dwellings, spare not; lengthen your cords, and strengthen your pegs.”
It is one thing to be the pastor of a church, subject to both hiring and firing. It is quite another to be considered family.
Thank you Father for making us one with You, and one another.
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