CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES

Dear Graduate,

Congratulations on your incredible achievement!  We stand here so proud of your accomplishments, excited for your future and prayerful for you as you pursue your dreams.

As your Pastor and friend, we want to pause to congratulate you as you finish and encourage you as you begin.  You are now on a journey of leading a legacy.  A definition of legacy is "someone’s lasting contribution to the world."  Your legacy is a result of what you have focused on in your life, and is the expression, through action, of your primary message.  Check out this verse:

“Don’t let anyone think less of you because you are young. Be an example to all believers in what you say, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity.”  1 Timothy 4:12

I love this verse because it gives us a pattern to live by and I think a legacy that you can pursue.  My prayer for you is that as you finish this part of your education, no matter where your future takes you, that you begin the lifelong process of leading a legacy that will change your generation.

It seems that the more choices get made in our lives, the more complexity sets in and then the tendency is for my faith to either slip or get complex.  If we had one piece of advice for you, it would be don't add Jesus to your life.  Don't do what so many do.  Don't make Him one "piece" of your life.  He is all that matters.

It is complexity that brings apathy.  When you keep things just about Jesus – you keep things simple.  Instead of asking what would Jesus do, can I just say…do what He did!  He always put people first.  He always risked everything for God's Kingdom.  He began a revolution that you have been chosen to be part of.  You are marked by God to be used by God to change the world for God.  Please don't be led away from your simple and pure devotion to Jesus. 

We’re praying for you, we’re standing with you and we are believing in you, as you pursue God’s dream for your life.

John  & Michelle Bishop

For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.  Jeremiah 29:11

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