This morning I talked to a friend about his recent trip to install a bathtub for a former pastor of mine. He had not met her before, and was very pleased to have made her aquaintance. I started sharing my history in knowing Sis. Goggin and her husband before that. It jogged a thought that I had while on my trip. Sometimes we take our heritage for granted.
While we were out at Rocky Gap, we would run into a local town for Bob Evans Breakfast. On Friday I ran into a Pastor of the church in that town at the Bob Evans. We talked for 20 minutes or so, and afterward I realized something, I'm not the first pastor that has come out of Pasadena A/G. Some may chalk it up to arrogance, but I think it really should be categorized under ignorance. Sometimes the past is just far enough removed that we forget how it affects the present. I had lost perspective that Martin had come out of Pasadena A/G. That Tim had come out of PAG. I had remembered missionaries that had been sent out before me, but that's because they're more recent.
It really made me appreciate even more how much my heritage has played a part in making me who I am. And I was humbled by that thought. I'm looking forward to the kid 25 years from now that is going out of PAG to pastor or start a church that has forgotten me. That thinks this is something new that God is doing in his life. Because it is. My story is just a mile marker on road of what God is doing through his church. To God be the glory, great things He has done.
--Ben
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As I was visiting a church recently, a poster in the foyer grabbed my attention -- "The measure of a great church is not its SEATING capacity but its SENDING capacity". The true heritage of our movement is NOT big churches or movin' and groovin' churches, but rather churches and individuals that take 'GO' seriously. My prayer for SRC is to create as many 'sent ones' as possible! (Get them sheep to market!)
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