Pastor’s Pen: [ October 8 ] Deacon-Sponsored Churchwide Barbecue 5:00-6:30pm Memorial Park Pavilion
[ October 25 ] Quarterly Business Mtg 5:45pm, Fellowship Hall
[ October 29] BLOCK PARTY FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES 6:00-8:00pm Capitol Avenue from Monroe to Adams Street
@fbcjc @fbcjcmo FBCJC FBCJC
Story #1: A church member told me how much he enjoyed listening to my sermon online, from our website’s audio files. He said one evening, he turned on the TV to the Cardinals’ game, then muted it. He watched the Redbirds, while he listened to me! Story #2: This summer I conducted a funeral here in our sanctuary. A family friend could not come back from London, England for the service, so we Skyped the entire program and he watched it live. Putting these two stories together, I am going to update my resume: “Sager has preached on Cardinals baseball games and he has also conducted a funeral in Great Britain.” Does it ever cease to amaze you how technology has changed our world? But technology is only a tool. Life-transforming, Cross-shaped love is our message. In light of the tragic rise of hate groups and the increase of intemperate speech and violence, God is calling FBC JC to show the world a different way— a way of radical love. The sins of bigotry and hate are as old as creation. But our entire Setting Sail initiatives are drawing us to be different kind of Baptists, different kind of Christians. Whether it is through technology or oldfashioned, face-to-face conversations, God is beckoning us to bring our very best selves to some very old problems in ever new ways. Grace,