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Church Door Red

While I worked on this blog post on Wednesday, I watched out my window as people came and went through the courtyard. A parade of Hillsborough Street humans filtered in and out around lunchtime, coming to receive a brown bag lunch; then there were delivery men; church members coming for meetings and the book group, and one little boy with what looked like his father in tow, climbing over the stumps and jumping off the play structure. As the afternoon gave way to evening, the campus ministry students arrived along with some local high school students for A Taste of PCM night. I love the view of the courtyard from my desk, because I love to watch all the people come in and out of the church. I want more people to find doors – ways into the church where they might find sanctuary.

Essential

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope, to Timothy, my loyal child in the faith –

These are the things you must insist on and teach. Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity. Until I arrive, give attention to the public reading of scripture, to exhorting, to teaching. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you through prophecy with the laying on of hands by the council of elders. Put these things into practice, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress. Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; continue in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers. - 1 Timothy 4:11-16