Loading... Please wait...Message: Joining the League by Randy Roberts
Part 1 - (Tales from) The League of Extraordinary Disciples
Pastoral Welcome: Bernard Taylor
Scripture Reading: Matthew 10:1–4, TNIV - Calvin Thomsen
PASTOR'S PAGE It is a delight to be back with you again after a three-month sabbatical! This has been a deeply meaningful time for me, with time spent in reading, study, planning, writing, some limited speaking, and rejuvenation, as well. My gratitude goes out to the Southeastern California Conference and to the leadership of the Loma Linda University Church for the privilege of taking this time. Additionally, I much appreciate my pastoral colleagues and to my assistant, Mary K. Becker, who shouldered extra work during this time. Thank you! And now we come to Camp Meeting 2009! I anticipate this camp meeting to a time of renewed and deepened commitment to our discipleship journey with Jesus. Sometimes people ask me what discipleship is. One person defined it this way: a disciple is one who responds to God’s call, and who allows him/herself to be used by God as part of God’s call to others to follow. In other words, it is a person who takes Jesus’ call on one’s life seriously enough to take the initiative to follow Jesus on a daily basis and to invite others into the same kind of relationship with Jesus. Unfortunately, many Christians do not have this quality of relationship with Jesus. In other words, many have responded to the invitation of Jesus to enter into a saving relationship with him, but have left it there. They haven’t taken seriously the call of God to walk with him each day and to invite others to do so. But, since a disciple does those things, I urge you to respond to his call to deepen your discipleship journey with him. As we together consider this, may God’s richest blessings be yours.
Randy Roberts
Senior Pastor
MEDITATION He who loves Christ the most will do the greatest amount of good. There is no limit to the usefulness of one who, by putting self aside, makes room for the working of the Holy Spirit upon his heart, and lives a life wholly consecrated to God. – Ellen G. White