Holy Trinity Lutheran Church

Message from Church Council President Gary Bague

7/5/2005
By: Holy Trinity Lutheran

“Faith Journey.” One of our pastors used the term at a recent meeting. What a profound way to reference our spiritual life. It isn’t that the destination is not important. We all want to end up in our afterlives in the place with the more temperate climate. But our lives as Christians while here on earth are all about the ongoing journey. It’s the one trip my kids know better than to ask, “Are we there yet?”

Unlike a summer vacation, this journey isn’t seasonal. In choosing to be a disciple of Christ and embarking on this journey of faith, we don’t fill photo albums so much as we are shaped as individuals. We in essence become the journey Emerson once said, “Who you are speak so loudly, I cannot hear what you are saying.” Who we are as Christians is, for better or worse, reflected to others in our every deed before the first word is exchanged.

Whether we attend church more regularly engage in bible study commit to tithing, or simply mention our church involvement to a non-churchgoer, we are logging miles in our faith journey. May your travels this summer always be rewarding, and may all who you meet on your journey see God in you.