June 29, 2025
This Sunday our message is titled ‘Small is Beautiful’ and our passage is Luke 13 v. 18 – 30.
If you think your efforts in loving others or growing in Christ or caring for God’s creation are small, I hope the following will give some perspective ……
• It helps, now and then, to step back and take a long view.
• The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is even beyond our vision.
• We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God’s work. Nothing we do is complete, which is a way of saying that the Kingdom always lies beyond us.
• No statement says all that could be said.
• No prayer fully expresses our faith.
• No confession brings perfection.
• No pastoral visit brings wholeness.
• No program accomplishes the Church’s mission.
• No set of goals and objectives includes everything.
This is what we are about.
• We plant the seeds that one day will grow.
• We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise.
• We lay foundations that will need further development.
• We provide yeast that produces far beyond our capabilities.
• We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that.
This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord’s grace to enter and do the rest.
• We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.
• We are workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs.
• We are prophets of a future not our own.
Julian Holdsworth
BSBC Pastor
