From the Pastor

The first coming of Jesus Christ was a dawning whose brightness grows until Christ comes again (2 Peter 1:16-19).  This brightness grows in that the message of God’s love and compassion revealed in Jesus Christ has gone beyond Palestine unto the ends of the earth, even unto Galax and where you live. We are part of a growing brightness in which the sharing of God’s love and compassion happens most often in the simple caring compassionate things that we do.

Because of Jesus Christ, a new day/age has begun. Indeed, it is a new age that introduces a new way of understanding life and a new way of living life. This brightness continues to grow within us and among us because the Holy Spirit creates us as instruments of divine love and compassion in the way of Jesus Christ.

Insights, whether divine or not, put events, connections, and situations in a broader perspective. For some Corinthian Christians and us, the spectacle of a shamefully crucified Messiah does not fit our concept of strength and power (1 Corinthians 2:1-15).

Nevertheless, Paul noted that he had the mind of Christ and he connected it with Christ crucified (1 Corinthians 2:16). In Paul’s life, he had become weak to help others; he had given up the pursuit of violence to persuade others by love and example. He embraced the way of love, compassion, and humility. May we too have the mind of Christ!