Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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Beloved,
Well, it’s
that time of the year.
Everybody’s
writing annual reports that are about as popular as books that I’ve written.
Did you know
you can buy just about any of my books on www.amazon.com
for the price of postage? Or just come to my study and I’ll give one or ten to
you. At last count,
I’m running
about a trillion to one behind Joel in sales.
How humiliating!
Anyway,
usually, church annual reports fall into four categories:
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See how great we are!
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Send money!
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Everything’s horrible because of our pastor!
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Though you’ve got to be careful of the members looking for a champion,
paramour, errand boy for
wandering desires, BFF, or someone who will
agree with the last person she/he has
talked to like a bad sentence ending
in a preposition, our Pastor
Search Committee says everything’s gonna
be great because of our new
pastor until we start treating her/him like
we did that last one!
Sorry, I’m
just being serious.
I’m just not
into it.
That’s not
your fault.
That’s my
personally pejorative pathology.
My sin.
I’d just
rather look to the future than our behind(s).
Oops.
Really, it’s
a Philippians 3:12ff thing for me; and while you’ve got the book opened to
Philippians, you can figure out my undershepherding sentiments and
priorities as articulated by the apostle throughout the entire letter. It’s only four chapters; requiring even less
time than reading The Rockford Register Star.
Truth is I’d
rather talk about what our Lord has done for us than what we think we’ve done
for Him; as if there’s any comparison or as if we could ever be and do enough
to praise and thank Him enough for what He’s done for us here and now and
forever by grace through faith in Jesus.
An old
gospel song comes to mind: “Count your blessings, name them one by one. Count your blessings, see what God has done!”
Have you
ever done that?
When I’ve
tried, I never have enough paper and I never get around to…
So, uh,
that’s my eternal report.
Blessings and Love,
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Blessings and Love!
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1 comment:
I Pray that this will be a good year for you and our Family of Faith. Because we are a true Church of God. We believe what the Bible Teaches.
About your Books I liked them. I thought they were well written. Now that's in the past. It`s a New year. We can start fresh. God Bless Everybody
HAPPY NEW YEAR
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