Dearest Grace Family,
I was wondering, could we pause together and imagine? A contemplation from the woman with the alabaster jar of perfume…
I am imagining a fragrance called Grace. A people generously giving Jesus the full benefit of a year’s labour in the Spirit.
Consider your calling as you become more like Jesus. What if, starting today, the gathering of God’s children known as Grace Church Port Macquarie, pursued and persisted to lavish a years worth of love and faithfulness on Jesus so that Jesus can reap the benefit? Imagine the fragrance: remarkable in our generation. I’m about it.
Carin Bohlscheid’s teaching from Mark 14 centred on generosity and humility, on Jesus discipling those who would abandon Him in His darkest hour: knowing His obedience would lead to reconciling them and many sons and daughters to God. This is love in action: purposeful, generous, powerful in impact.
Grace, your love for God and each other is showing…
…in the way you showed up as family on Saturday to clean and clear, weed and prune, patch and paint at the Working Bee: above and beyond measure…
…in your smiles and cheers as we reunited with Pastors Greg and Amanda in fellowship Sunday morning…
…in Monday’s funeral and afternoon tea and the many who came to honour our beautiful Nancy Trounce and surround the Trounce family with love in a time of grief.
Thank you for being love in action. God promises that those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. (Proverbs 11:25)
We stand in the realities of earth while experiencing the joy that is Jesus. With that in mind, we are looking forward to celebrating 30 years of God’s faithfulness to Grace Church this weekend.
This Sunday our testimonies of God’s greatness will be the message. Come ready to share.
The table is set. See you there.
Love & Grace,
Debbie-Ann Bax