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- 6:00pm   Bible Study

 

 

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This past Sunday Gayle and I went downtown to the corner of 4th and main (the old, Old National Bank events plaza) to see Hannah Ford in the Civic Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.  It was fun to sit in lawn chairs in what was the best evening for weather that we have had for the last 4 weeks or so.

We sat with anticipation waiting to see when Hannah would come on stage, if you can call the events plaza a stage.  She played Moth and was heavily made up like most of the fairy corp and elves.  (Midsummer’s Night’s Dream is a whimsical and rather disjointed play—it is a dream—though and what dreams aren’t?)  Gayle asked me to point Hannah out when she made her way into the production.  She did an excellent job and we joined with the rest of the audience in a hearty round of applause at its conclusion.

Before the show began, I was pleased by a letter written to the audience on the program by the director.  In it he praised the cast and crew and indicated that we were to remember that this was a troupe of amateur actors performing a complex play, in a different prose and style from modern English.  He also indicated that the “amateur” cast, in his estimation was performing at a professional level.  But one thing that really caught my eye and imagination was his definition of amateur in regards to stage productions.  Amateur means, “for the love of.”  These actors were performing this play for the love of the performance and not for any compensation.

In a sense nearly all of us in the church are amateurs.  Most of you work, serve and worship as amateurs, for the love of it.  Many years ago I had a church member call me an amateur and I bristled at that a bit.  Perhaps I should have because I was “paid” staff after all, and I viewed myself as a professional.  But today I wish that I could once again be an amateur in that definition.  I love what I do.  I love the people I do it for and with.  I love this church.  I hope you are strengthened in your walk by realizing that as amateurs, you are showing your love for the Lord, this church and the Kingdom.      YOU ROCK!!!

Pastor Jeff

 

 

 

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