[amc] a note from the pastor
- From: "garland robertson" <pastor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Austin Mennonite Church" <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 17:59:24 -0600
Members and Friends of Austin Mennonite Church
I trust you are secure in you faith in God's enduring compassion and endless
mercy.
Regardless of how much energy and reflection we expend on making plans and
evaluating choices, usually the results of our efforts produce circumstances
different from what we had intended. Sometimes we are pleasantly surprised
to find that consequences of our forethought have produced fulfillment
beyond that which we had first imagined. And sometimes we discover our
situation is more complicated than how we had expected it to be. Whenever
our decisions lead us into uncomfortable and difficult conditions, we often
find ourselves reviewing the past looking for some indication of what
mistakes we might have made, what we could have done that would have
prevented this disappointing outcome. In the section of the Sermon on the
Mount that we will consider next Sunday, Matthew 7:1-5, Jesus discusses this
dynamic with his first disciples, urging them to avoid yielding to the
temptation of making judgments because of consequences and complications
they will encounter when following the way of life which he is teaching to
them. Years have not altered either the magnitude of this temptation or the
wisdom of this counsel. These thoughts will compose the sermon for next
Sunday, 'The danger of being judgmental.'
May it go well with you. Sincerely,
Garland Robertson
...always hold firmly to the thought that each one of us can do something to
bring some portion of misery to an end
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