God is Good!

This weekend our church was blessed to have an amazing visitor and speaker, Mike Cope.  My husband and I had the pleasure of taking him out to dinner on Friday night with two other couples from church.  He is an amazing, gifted speaker.  Meeting him and spending time with him was special for my husband who grew up listening to Mike speak at youth rallies in high school and still closely follows his messages today when Mike is a faculty member at Abilene Christian University and considered one of the thought leaders and best speakers amongst Churches of Christ. 

The elders at our church made the decision to move toward a gender inclusive worship earlier this year and are implementing this at the beginning of October.  Mike Cope was the perfect speaker to have this weekend because he led his church through a similar process many years ago and offered wonderful perspective and words of encouragement.

Although this process has been rough for our church body, I am more confident than ever that our church is moving in the right direction and that we will be better able to make Christ known through the fruits of this change.  Praise God from whom all blessings flow!  His love endures forever!