Bluewater Bay Campus eLetter
From Our Campus Pastor
I’m aware of a family situation in which someone left home and never returned. The person was in their late teens or early twenties when they left. No one in the family has ever heard from this person since, and that was probably around 50 years ago. No one knows where he is, where he went, or if he is still alive.
I have often wondered how the family would respond if he were to show up on their doorstep. You’re probably thinking about the story of the prodigal son by now. I am also thinking about the timing of the return. What do you think? Is there such a question? What is the best time to go home?
From my perspective, the time to go home, if you’ve been away for a long time, is always NOW.
Some of us need to decide to go home NOW. Back to our place of love, acceptance, and belonging. Back to the place of grace and truth. Back to the place where we can journey together with people who love us so much that they are not afraid to confront us when we take missteps. Back to the place that will challenge our thinking. Back to the place where my family will help me see the log in my eye before I point out the speck in someone else’s eye. Back to the place where we can gather around the table in fellowship to eat. (This is a Sunday morning worship service) I need this kind of community, and so do you. One way to reaffirm that decision to go home is to remember your baptism. That was the time and place of stating overtly and publicly, I belong to the family, and I am home.
But if you’ve never been baptized, or you have questions about your baptism and want to remember it, be sure to reach out so that either Mike Vlk, our Associate Pastor, or I can meet with you and pray through that with you.
And if you have made a profession of faith in Christ, in other words, you have decided to follow Jesus, and you have never been baptized, this Sunday, October 19, is the time for you to come home to the family! Once again, reach out NOW so we can talk.
Email us NOW:
Billy Russell
Mike Vlk
We’ll see you there this Sunday as we celebrate as a family together, people coming home!
-Billy Russell
Campus Pastor
