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MARCH
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH J E F F E R S O N C I T Y, M O
As we begin March, we are only a couple weeks into Lent. Lent is a 40-day season (not including Sundays) when we are invited to be honest about who we are and who God is. N.T. Wright wrote, “Lent is a time for discipline, for confession, for honesty, not because God is mean or fault-finding or finger-pointing but because he wants us to know the joy of being cleaned out, ready for all the good things he now has in store.”
Maybe more hikes, snowball fights, or star-gazing nights.
Often, we talk about giving something up for Lent, but Lent can also be about adding something. Both are done with the intent of drawing us closer to God, relying on God and God alone. We’ve lost so much this past year. Maybe this year the invitation is to add things that invite us to dwell more with God and participate with God in God’s dream for us and our world rather than losing yet another thing.
Maybe more Love. Yes, definitely more Love.
Maybe more calls, texts, or “thinkingof-you” notes.
Maybe more meals around the table or picnics in the park. Maybe more random acts of kindness or “just because” gifts. Maybe more silence than noise, more being than doing.
We’ve lost a lot, friends. Maybe God is inviting us to add more of what really matters in the spaces already left open by loss this year. Perhaps this will be one of the ways God renovates our hearts this season.
With Christ’s hope and love,
FBC Pastors
UPCOMING
March 14 - Noon Special Called Business Meeting
April 1 Maundy Thursday @ 7pm
April 4 Easter Services
“Add more of what really matters in the spaces left open by loss.”