A MESSAGE FROM Rev. Scott Faw, Rowan Southern Baptist Association Board of Directors

Dear Friends,

I hope this note will find you all doing well.  We have come to the month of May and time is slipping by quickly.  I wanted to share just some musing from my mind this month as we go into these hot summer months.

 It is amazing how much can go through your mind while you are in the middle of preaching a sermon. Even though I am trying to focus on the congregation, while navigating through my manuscript (yes believe it or not I type out the entire manuscript, even though I’m sure preaching without notes would be better), in the midst of all of that, I still find thoughts coming into my head. A week or two ago I was preaching on a Sunday morning, as I was preaching through John 14, the thought came to mind, “Man, I love this!” I realized again how much I truly love preaching. As I rode home from church, I thanked God for the privilege to preach.

 When I was younger I resented all the people who told me I was going to be a preacher when I grew up. I had other aspirations, none of which included the ministry. Now, I can’t imagine doing anything else. When I am not preaching, I am thinking about the next time I will preach. I sermonize in my sleep. I wake up in the middle of the night with Sunday’s text on my mind, and get up to go write down the bones to an outline.

 In Ephesians 3:7-8, the Apostle Paul said, “7 of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power.  8 To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,”.

I am not the son of a preacher, and there are not a long line of preachers in my family tree. That, however, was not the reason the Lord called me to preach. Nothing about me pre-qualified me to be a preacher. I get to preach because God showed me grace when He called me into His service.

I am no great preacher, but I preach a great gospel! There is nothing profound about the words of my preaching, but there is power in the Word I preach! Though relatively few will ever hear me preach, the One for whom I preach listens every time, and so long as He is glorified, I will be satisfied, and forever thankful that He chose me to be His herald.

What a privilege to go “preach” on behalf of King Jesus.

 ...Time to study. Sunday's coming.

 Have a great month and remember that us as an association of churches when we are working together.  Do pray for our association in this time of transition as we move forward for the kingdom of God. 

Until He Comes

Rev. Scott Faw

Pastor

Calvary Baptist Church