Reflections | Dr. Leighton Ford (Mentoring)
The Church Is Not A Reenactment (Leighton Ford)
April 25, 2016
I just heard a really powerful sermon by our former pastor, Steve Eason .. his first Sunday as interim pastor at First Presbyterian Church, Richmond, VA.
It was on Jesus appearing to two “nobodies” on the road to Emmaus.
“My greatest fear for the church,” he says, “is that we will be a museum for relics of the past. That we will ‘re-enact’ the gospel like people reenact battles of the Civil War, of something that happened a hundred years ago that we remember but it’s not real now.”
Worth listening, and heeding …click here for a link where you can watch a video of Steve’s message.
Leighton Ford
