The motto for our regional body, the American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky, is “Together on God’s Abundant Journey”. It’s a phrase our Executive Minister, the Rev. Soozi Whitten Ford, has introduced through her ministry among us. The Scripture reference Soozi draws from for this thinking is Ephesians 3:14-21:
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth takes its name. I pray that, according to the riches of his glory, he may grant that you may be strengthened in your inner being with the power through his Spirit, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, as you are being rooted and grounded in love. I pray that you may have the power to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with the fullness of God. (vv. 14-19 NRSV)
Now, that’s quite a prayer! Continue reading
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