Rev Bill

I have posted my sermon from today on my sermon blog. It’s the second in my series on being the Church God wants us to be, today based on Acts 2:42-47 and Ephesians 5:1-20.

Here’s a portion of it:

I’m reminded of the football quarterback whose team was being beaten at the hands of a much more talented and a much larger team. Every time his team would get the ball, his coach would call for running plays – and every time they would lose yardage. The quarterback would complain to the coach about running the ball every time and would point out that it wasn’t working – but the coach would respond “that’s our game plan and we’re going to stick with it.” Finally the coach called some pass plays – and the team started moving down the field – scoring points – until finally with just a few minutes left in the game they only 6 points behind. It came down to one final play. The coach reverted to his original plan – and called a running play – but the quarterback knew better. He called for a pass play – one that was brilliantly executed – and the team scored and kicked the extra point – winning the game. The coach, while excited about winning, was also concerned about why the quarterback had changed the play he had called for. When he asked the quarterback, he replied: “Well, coach, your plan A didn’t work – so I thought I’d try my Plan B.”
A lot of times in our live plan A doesn’t work – so we have to go to plan B. I’m going to recommend something today. I’m going to recommend that – if we want to truly be a Church that exalts God – if we really want to be people who exalt God and are imitators of God — if we really want to be a group of people who exalt and glorify God and reflect the glory of God in our worship and in the way we live our lives – we are going to have to scrap whatever plan A is and go to plan B – or really we have to go with plan B E – Plan Be!

You can read the sermon here.

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