My Pastor does good!

I often joke with my pastor that if he wants to have good (read this safe) deacon's meetings he needs to quote Spurgeon often in his sermons. Doing so will make me a very satisfied sermon listener. :)

I gotta say that he did great yesterday without mentioning the Prince of Preachers at all. He read a paragraph from Dr. MLJ on true joy in the morning when he preached in I John and mentioned a You Tubed sermon of Piper.

One of his key points last night was about how not verbally sharing the gospel was a grievous sin. Conviction.

May the Lord continue to bless my pastor with the courage to preach the whole Bible.

DD

Billy Graham & Chruch Membership

Happy New Year!

I saw earlier this week that Billy Graham is moving his church membership from FBC, Dallas to a church in SC, about 90 miles from his home. I think I knew that he was a member in Dallas but had forgotten.

Question. Did he ever live in Dallas? I don't recall him ever doing so. Of course with his ministry he had limited time at home anyway but how could he really be an active member of a church several states away from his home?

On the surface at least this seems to be a pretty casual and nearly meaningless type of church membership.

DD

Postcard Sending Deacon

Sam Rainer's post (hat tip to Timmy over at P&P) gave me the idea to contact our own members (esp those I don't know or have not seen in a few weeks).

http://samrainer.wordpress.com/2008/03/28/restoring-integrity-to-membership-my-church%e2%80%99s-story/

Hope this starts a process of reclaiming some who have stopped attending our church.

DD

PS. Sam's blog is new to me but is very good. Learned a lot.