Post Election Thouhts

I’m David Burton and I approve this message, ok I had to get one more in, if your at all not ready for these ads to be over you need to have a check up. I have talked with several people over what happened yesterday, and whether your guy won, is not important. As I got up this morning I realized one thing, the sun still rose, it was still raining at my house, and I was still breathing and able to get out of bed. God is still the same God today he was yesterday. We all have our political views and each of us have an opinion as to whom we wanted to win and why. David Horner asked a tough question last Sunday evening, when you pray do you pray for your political opponent. Taking that further you could ask, do you pray for those people you don’t really like? Believe it or not some one just popped in to your mind when you read that line. We all have those people in our lives, we would rather not have to be around, or just have that gift, to get under our skin. I told one friend last night at the station, that God already knew the winner, and that he was still God. He has the ability to change the hearts of kings, and in our case Presidents, Mayors, Governors, whatever the office may be. I trust that God has a plan bigger than any of my ideas and thoughts as to how the races all over the country came out. I also had to remind my self of this, I am to be busy with the Father’s work. I did do my homework, and voted, as responsible as I could based on my convictions. I also have to ask myself about my personal walk with the lord, and am I serving him with my best, or do I just give him enough to get by. There are so many things going on right now in people’s lives that affect so many areas of the church and including our media ministry. I some times find myself questioning my abilities, and the reasons God allows things to happen as they do. I often have to remind myself he is in control and not me. It saddens me to have to share that we loose several members at least for some time. Luke and Rockie are expecting any day, and are anxiously waiting there little one. They will be back after some time, but will be missed in the short time they are away from us. I also have to say good-bye to Lawrence and Janet Wilson from our team and church body. They have made a decision to pursue some other options for a church home; they will be missed on our team. This also brings me to our next challenge. We talked on the retreat in September about bringing one friend to the team. I still make this challenge to you, as we grow as a ministry more and more positions are going to be needed, and more personnel are needed to fill those spots. I know times are challenging right now, and it’s an easy time to back out of duties, with so many good reasons to use as an excuse. I believe you all know where I stand, as far as serving with you all. You are some of the most dedicated faithful servants I have ever been around. I pray that each of you serve because you want to serve and not out of a sense of guilt or manipulation. I know it’s hard getting up early on a Sunday to be at the 6:45 meeting, yes the time has changed to 6:45 effective this Sunday. I change the time because we are now getting a chance to look at the service n Wednesday evenings now. I also understand how hard it is to leave around 1:00 and be back at 4:30 every other Sunday. It’s also easy to get caught up now in the services, as they are all the same, and get in to that rut in the 3rd service. Remember this each time we do a service, it is the first service for those people sitting in the chairs, and what we do could have eternal affects in some ones life. What we do when we are not behind the equipment is also noticed. I have been reminded of this lately as I have had several people say to me that they noticed, how we as a team communicate with each other, how we hang out together on Sunday mornings, and how they have observed us, doing our thing. That is alarming to me that people notice so many things we do, that are not even technically driven, Always be conscious of what you say, your body language, and facial expressions say alot. I am as guilty of this as anyone. You all are the best; I have said before, and will never grow tired of saying this. I have never in my life been so blessed to work with such a fine group of individuals in my life, you bless me each and every time we are together, thank you for serving.