Of Gifts and Treasures
In my sermon on Sunday, I introduced the theme for our upcoming 75th anniversary celebration. Our theme is Treasures Old and New.
The parable of Jesus from which this comes serves as a challenge to meet our current moment with the gifts and treasures in our storehouse. Another way to say this is that God has gifted each body of believers with all the needed treasures in order to survive and thrive. We already have the treasures! Our task is to pull out the ones- both the old and the new- that will enable us to meet this moment.
Northside Drive’s storehouse is overflowing. We have a profoundly rich heritage of faith and faithfulness. And this heritage contains within it all that we need to lean into the years to come. Yes, not everything will be coming with us- we all tend to hold onto more than we need to (look no further than my attic)! The process of sorting through the storehouse is a critical one.
I want to encourage you to lend your hand to this work. Help us identify our treasures. It will require that we remember, that we tell stories, that we open boxes, that we ask questions, that we reflect critically.
In the coming months we will work together to identify our treasures old and new. As we move towards our grand celebration in September of 2027, we will look back as well as look forward in order to discover God’s riches all around us!
God has given us everything we need to meet this moment with conviction and with joy!
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