The Reverend Melvin Mack

 I am grateful to the public relations ministry for working so diligently to launch this new website for Rafting Creek Baptist Church. My prayer is that this site will be instrumental in helping to grow our congregation as a “church with a redemptive purpose.”

 

As we move through what Carlyle Marney has called the “jungle of our secularity,” we must not forget that websites go up and come down continuously. Thus, let our main concern not be to get our name out on social platforms; rather, let us be more concerned with lifting up the name of Jesus.

    

“Growing as a Church with a Redemptive Purpose” will not take place, if we become more concerned with making a name for ourselves and promoting ourselves. James S. Hall, Jr., a former pastor of our great congregation during his younger years in pastoral ministry, once made a statement that was ever so simple and yet so sound. What he said rings with truth even now. Dr. Hall, referencing to growth that takes place in so many churches, said: "There is a difference between growing and swelling."

 

I challenge our congregation to use this site to arouse our passion for doing what Christ has commissioned his Church to do. Might our purpose erupt into loving and servicing others. Might our purpose cause us to see who we truly are. In doing so, we will see ourselves far from who we ought to be as the body of Christ, but nowhere near who we used to be, because we are “Growing as a Church with a Redemptive Purpose.”

 

Again, thanks to the public relations ministry and the entire Rafting Creek Baptist Church family. May the Lord GOD bless you real good.

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Melvin Mack