Sometime after I had finished pastoring in my last church, as I was walking through my neighbourhood, I sense the Lord impressing upon me these words, “Don’t forget Rod, that you are still a pastor in your neighbourhood.” These words have stayed with me and brought to mind the words of Jesus when He said we are the light of the world and the salt of the earth and His witnesses in the world in which we live, in our neighbourhood, school, workplace, local shopping centre, extended family or wherever the world in which we live takes us.
With this in mind, as pastors in our neighbourhood, Sue and I…….…
Policemen in a certain town were called to a house where people were found to be stealing possessions from that house. Surprisingly, the policemen stayed on the footpath outside of the house and began to sing about the authority that had been given to them to arrest lawbreakers. As they declared their authority to one another, the robbers completed the task at hand of robbing the house of all its possessions and departed the scene.
In preparation for a new year, I spent a recent December on a retreat at home to get perspective from the Lord for the coming year.