Ironbridge Church | Pastor’s Corner

I walked into my outer office this past week to find a strange cardboard box lying on the glass table in the center of the room.  I noticed it was a package from our LifeWay headquarters in Nashville, Tennessee.  It seemed odd to me because I had not ordered anything from LifeWay recently.

When I opened the box, there was bubble wrap around something tucked securely inside.  I pulled the small object out of the box.  I had no earthly idea what it could be.  To my surprise, it was a beautiful, silver hourglass with the F.A.I.T.H. Evangelistic Sunday School Strategy Logo on the top.  As I turned the hourglass upside down to watch the sand begin to fall into the lower chamber of the hourglass, I noticed that a letter accompanied this interesting gift from Baptist headquarters.

The first sentence of the letter caused my heart to leap!  It read: “Today, I am writing you to express my gratitude for your continual faithfulness to equip people in your church to be fishers of men.”   My message the day before was entitled “Obeying God’s Call.”  The text for the sermon was Matthew 4:19, “And He said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.’”

It was at that moment that I realized that this unexpected gift was more than just a random present.  It was both an affirmation from the Lord and a wakeup call for our church.

Nothing in our lives or the life of our beloved Ironbridge must ever be allowed to rise above the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:19, 20.  Tomorrow, we’ll look at the “rest of the story” as it concerns this mysterious gift of the silver hourglass.

Today’s Scripture Promise:  “Go therefore, and make disciples…”  (Matthew 28:19)

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