Opening post

[Written by Pastor David Willis]

I wanted to thank you for visiting our church website. If you are an attendee, visitor or just someone stumbling upon our site, I trust you will check out what we are about!

The other day I was sitting at a stop light when a business sign caught my attention. It read, “Some people want to change the world, we only want to change your oil.” At first I chuckled, but soon had more reflective thoughts. Although the statement may be commendable for a business that specializes in oil changes, as a Christian personal life strategy I strongly disagree with the statement. As a believer in the One who calls His followers to be agents of transformation, I want to change the world. Although I may never be placed on the world stage as an international leader, I still can be a world changer. Jesus calls all of His followers to change their corner of the world. He calls us to be “the salt of the earth…the light of the world” (Matthew 5:13-14). Both of these are components that alter the arrangement of the environments they touch. As a person of faith, you either change or need to be changed.

His challenge to the church in Corinth is still ours today:

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 2 Corinthians 5:17-20.

We are called to be ministers of reconciliation, agents of transformation, and catalysts for change. I want to ask you how you plan on living out your calling? Will you rise to the occasion and change the world Jesus Christ calls you to touch? Will you be an instrument of change in your workplace, friendships, family, and social networks?

Jesus is calling for a generation of world changers! I trust you respond like the Old Testament prophet Isaiah, who when called to reach his generation declared “Here am I. Send me!”