A Message from Pastor Greg

Whistle a Happy Tune

Today was a bit of a sad day.  You see, today I gathered up my individual sheets of choir music and returned them to the choir room so they can be filed away for another time.  All the songs many of you were supposed to hear over Easter and into the spring.  A wonderful new swinging gospel arrangement of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and a powerful new setting of “Because He Lives” that was meant to create a musical and faith-filled “exclamation point” for Easter Sunday morning.

Like many of you, this COVID-19 time is helping me consider what I love and, perhaps, have taken for granted.  Singing God’s praise with others who love him and love to sing is one of those things.  As I was looking through the silent songs I was reminded of individual choir members who would have a special affinity with one piece or another.  This might be a surprise to some readers but choir members (1) love the Lord, (2) love to sing, (3) love each other and sometimes (4) love the music that I pick!  Most choir members operate under a three out four ”ain’t bad”! ☺️

Last Wednesday night, members of our “choir family” gathered on a Zoom call to visit with each other, share prayer concerns, pray together and remind ourselves we still “belong.”  Three weeks earlier we did the same thing and tried to add singing.  That didn’t go so well.  So, last week we stuck with what works – being together, caring for each other and talking to our God.

I pray that through this website and our weekly worship broadcasts that you are reminded that you still “belong” to the BSBC family.  While we are separated by rule of law and immediate need that we are still one family.  Ephesians 4: 4-6 reminds us:  There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.  One.  We are one in Christ and I treasure that reality in these days of separation.

I love the hymns of Charles Wesley and leave you with these wise words:

Blest be the dear uniting love
that will not let us part;
our bodies may far off remove,
we still are one in heart.

Partakers of the Savior's grace,
the same in mind and heart,
nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place,
nor life, nor death can part.

Charles Wesley (1742)

I’m eternally grateful for Christ’s ‘dear uniting love’ and for you.

Pastor Greg