Lesson #1:
Death is all
around us. I know it sounds morbid, but it’s true. I had never even
thought about this but within the first three months of church planting I had
performed 2 funerals. I knew that pastors did that sort of thing, but I never
even had that on my radar as something I would be doing. We had friends
diagnosed with cancer. We saw addicts return to their old habits, financial collapse,
and much more. The weight of life taking it’s toile. Listen, I learned this
year that life is hard, and we all hurt. And if it weren’t for a merciful and
loving God, I’d have no place to take the pain of pastoring. There is hurt
everywhere, but there is also life, and I have learned more this year than ever
that He is the source of life and I/we will cling to Him.
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