Sunday November 22nd was our last service. We are closing Crossmark because God has done what he has wanted to do in us.

This has been made evident to us in several ways. The families in our core group just haven’t been able to give it the priority it needs to plant a stable growing church. Pastor Will and Olivia’s second child is due and will be born any day. Our other pastor has his fourth child coming in Dec/Jan. The church has had people with different health issues that haven’t been the best. None of these are bad things. They are just where God has us in life.

We want to be clear. There was no sin involved, no personality issues, and nothing that was leading us to having to close the church. We just felt as a core group it was time to close because we just weren’t accomplishing the original mission that we wanted to do. We wanted to plant a church that non-Christians would want to and would come to. We wanted to plant a church where nominal Christians would desire and allow God to work in them to become phenomenal Christians. We wanted to be a church that made Jesus known better.

We weren’t meeting that goal. If a church isn’t meeting its goal then it should evaluate its effectiveness in fulfilling its purpose. We attracted some who just wanted to attend a new church. We had a few church hoppers and visitors and they were always welcome and came regularly. We were and are thankful for them and their sojourn with us.

Our goal though was to plant a church that reached a community for Christ. We weren’t doing that and decided it would be wiser to step back and re-evaluate how best to do it. Our pastors evaluated their lives and consulted their spouses and chose to focus on building their families before attempting to build another church or continue a church that wasn’t meeting its goals.

We rejoice that in our time together we have seen marriages saved, nominal believers chase after the phenomenal God, families reunited, a man called and dedicated to pastoral ministry, children dedicated to God, and the name of God being magnified.

We look forward to seeing what God will do from the fruit of our labors. We believe God is going to something awesome in all our futures.

Thanks and God bless for all those who supported us. Be in prayer as we continue to chase after God. Pray for our families and pastors to move to where God will have us. Pray that the work God began with Crossmark will go on until the Kingdom of God comes into this present age. Pray that God will continue to call people to live lives marked by the cross of Christ.

On behalf of my family and what was the Crossmark family may God richly bless you and keep you. May his face shine upon you. May he be gracious to you. May the Lord’s name be upon you.

Sincerely,
Will Adair
lead pastor/church planter of Crossmark

Sorry We are Closed for Service

A Open Letter To Chris Canuel on his Ordination,

I don’t like to brag. Okay actually I do. Call it a natural reaction to having adorable kids.I do try to be humble in it. On September 19th, we as a Church believe God had a reason to brag a bit. He put his seal on the ministry of Chris Canuel through our new church start. So who is Chris Canuel? Well he is the guy who is always on twitter @chriscanuel and facebook. Additionally, Chris is the guys that will shortly be getting some info on the staff page. What does he do at Crossmark? He is our Associate to the Pastor & Pastor to the Children. He has 3 kids and 1 on the way. He loves kids. God is working in his life and we love it that God has started doing it at Crossmark Church.

As a Pastor I have a awesome responsibility and judgment before God affirming those who express interest in ministry. I know that I do a lot of things wrong. I have made a lot of mistakes in my ministry.I have confidence that this is not one of those mistakes. The Bible tells us in 1 Timothy 5:22 that we are not to be hasty in the laying on of hands. This includes in confirming someone that desires to be an elder in the local Church.

I met Chris a few years ago. We became friends. He told me of his past and his desire to be in the ministry. He was a atheist for years until he met the Sovereign God of the universe in the person of Christ. His life began to change. He got married. He started attending a local church. He got plugged in and is the first to help set up most every week. He loves to talk about God. He loves to serve God.

I believe that God has called this man into the ministry. He’s a good guy. More importantly God is transforming him into a Godly guy. A few weeks back I believed the Lord said, it is time to make his ministry publicly official. So we did after our preaching service. We and Christian members of his family came and laid hands on him and prayed. We all hope God is going to do wonderful things through him.

We at Crossmark Church are proud of him. We believe God is going to do something great in his life and ministry. Come see what God is doing through him. Message him and tell him congratulations.

And Chris I didn’t tell you that Sunday but I am proud to be your pastor. I look forward to hearing God one day say to me, “Good call on that Canuel ordination.” I also have wanted to say, I have a few words for you borrowed from three different authors. The first is from Dr. Seuss.

Oh, the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You’ll be famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV.

Except when they don’t. Because, sometimes, they won’t.

I’m afraid that some times you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ‘cause you’ll play against you.

All Alone!
Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you’ll be quite a lot.

And when you’re alone, there’s a very good chance you’ll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won’t want to go on.

But on you will go though the weather be foul. On you will go though your enemies prowl. On you will go though the Hakken-Kraks howl. Onward up many a frightening creek, though your arms may get sore and your sneakers may leak. On and on you will hike. And I know you’ll hike far and face up to your problems whatever they are.

You’ll get mixed up, of course, as you already know. You’ll get mixed up with many strange birds as you go. So be sure when you step. Step with care and great tact and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act. Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)

That poem sums up my hope for you that you will learn to balance things well and learn to follow God as he shapes your words and way. The only one you ultimately have to prove anything to beside God is yourself. There was not much pomp and circumstance in your ordination. To that I leave a message from a theological author whom I think you may know a few things about. So without further ado, here some words from Spurgeon to you.

Whence comes the whole paraphernalia of ordination as observed among some Dissenters? Since there is no special gift to bestow, why in any case the laying on of empty hands? Since we cannot pretend that mystic succession so vaunted by Ritualists, why are men styled “regularly ordained ministers”? … We do not object to a recognition of the choice of the church by its neighbors and their ministers, on the contrary, we believe it to be a fraternal act, sanctioned by the very spirit of Christianity; but where it is supposed to be essential, is regarded as a ceremony, and is thought to be the crowning feature of the settlement, we demur.

My final words come from the greatest author of all. The Great Author is God writing through the pen of Paul. I charge you with nothing more and nothing less than this charge from Paul in Philippians 2:12b-16 to that local church and to all who are part of the Church.

“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. Do all things without grumbling or questioning, that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that t I did not run in vain or labor in vain.

May God do great things through you.

Sincerely,
Pastor Will Adair

If you would like to read this sermon on how our choices and God’s ways coexist then please click Man’s Choices and God’s Way: reflections on the wisdom of God. Unfortunately the audio didn’t record it so there is no audio link. Pastor Will will be preaching through parts of Proverbs for the next few weeks. Come here him live.

Below was our worship for our October 4 meeting. We don’t have a band so we use multimedia. This past week we went the venerable youtube route. Provided below is what wasn’t on the outline provided in our Hand Out for October 04, 2009.

Liturgy Text for this sermon was:

PROVERBS FOR LIFE: reflections of wisdom from Proverbs 1

Leader: Those who want wisdom, listen to me. You must desire it!
Everyone: We desire to know wisdom and instruction, in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity.
Leader: Then Come to the Source.
EVERYONE: THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE; ONLY THE WISE LOVE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION.
Leader: AMEN, Lord may we receive Your Wisdom.

Music this week was:
Choose Life – Big Tent Revival
By Your Side – Tenth Avenue North
Mighty To Save

Come learn how God turns our failures into his successes and changes us along the way.

We will be studying together how God has used countless different types of individuals many with countless different problems and sins to proclaim the gospel from Genesis to Revelation. Each weeks message can stand alone so anyone interested can come any Sunday and join in.

The first message in this series is the gospel according to the Earth. In our day the word Gospel has lost its meaning in our culture. In the Church world as a whole the care of the Earth has been forgotten. How do we balance these two extremes? Imagine if the world could speak out on these two subjects. When we study the Scriptures we see that it has and that the answer is found throughout the Bible.

A brief history of the doctrine of Baptism
As discussed early until the Reformation there was near unity on the method of baptism, though there was differences in the significance of baptism. Martin Luther a German Catholic believed that the Church under the leadership of Rome had rejected the clear teachings of the Scripture and had added to what God had done in the person of Christ and to his commands instituting the sacraments. Luther believed that in doing this they were unwittingly leading people away from Christ. He began a movement to restore the Church to only the doctrines found within the Bible. This movement came to be known as the Reformation.

The Roman churches taught that there were nine sacraments and that they were all necessary for salvation. Luther and those that followed him rejected this view. This led to a split between the churches that followed Rome and those that did not. Those that did not follow Rome were collectively called Reformed churches because they wanted to reform the Church to only follow scripture. As Christians and converts began searching for what the Bible taught this led to different developments within the Christian faith. Nearly 40 years after the Reformation began a second group of Reformers emerged in other countries particularly Switzerland that allowed for the Reformed faith to grow.

One of the leading leaders in Geneva Switzerland was a man named John Calvin. For all the differences between the Lutheran and Calvinistic traditions they agreed that Jesus instituted two divine sacraments where God freely imparts His grace in the sacraments of baptism and communion. They agreed with the majority of Church history that baptism was the sign of the New Covenant like circumcision was the sign of the Old Covenant. They agreed that the sacrament of Communion replaced the Old Testament practice of Passover. They rejected the idea of Rome that these acts were salvific and necessary for salvation. They saw a organic connection between what God had done in the Old Testament and the New Testament and what God was doing in their churches and lives. They saw the Church as composed of true and false churches and believers.

One group of reformers in Zurich Switzerland rejected the idea of the Church being made up of true and false believers. They believed in a pure Church made up only of believers. They rejected the idea of sacraments and believed that the New Testament covenant was intrinsically individualistic over communal. They purposed the idea of a believer’s only Church. They believed that the only true baptism are those that are preceded by the individual professions of faith. They also rejected the idea of sacraments in favor of the idea of ordinances. They believed the two commands of Jesus of baptism and the Lord’s Supper were memorial events that only pointed back to what Jesus had done. They rejected the idea that God was imparting grace during the acts of baptism and communion, the unity of the Old and New Covenants, and the communal aspect in favor of personal piety.
This view came to be known as credo-baptism (profession of faith proceeding baptism). It is the view of Baptist and the majority of non-denominational churches. The Calvinist Reformed view of Presbyterian and Reformed churches believe that baptism is the sign of the New Covenant and is offered to both converts and the children of converts. This view is called covenant-baptism or infant-baptism. Covenant baptism requires profession of faith from converts and profession of faith from the parents of the child being baptized into the covenant community of the visible church.

Crossmark’s Open-handed postion
Both credo-baptism and covenant baptism rejects that baptism is part of salvation. Instead it is a celebration of faith in what God had done in the life of a disciple. In both views baptism is viewed as an act of obedience to a command of Christ. Our church sees baptism as a open hand theological issue between the two position of credo baptism and covenant baptism. The writings of the early Church are nearly unanimous from the third century onward that baptism is to be offered to both converts to Christ upon profession of faith and to the children of professing believers as a sign of the continuing covenant of God with his people. However within the early Church there were a few who argued for credo-baptist position. The early church viewed this as a open handed issue. In the Reformation a small group of believer’s adopted the credo-baptist view as the only valid form of baptism and for them this was a close handed issue. They rejected the covenant/paedo baptism position as anti-biblical. This schism has divided sincere Christian brethren from worshipping together, taking communion with one another, sharing in the gospel mandate, and even doubting the validity of another’s salvation on this issue alone. In our desire to fulfill Christ command “to love one another” in the hope that by doing so “by this the world will know that we are his disciples” that we will be united in the gospel for the glory of God. [John 13:5, John 13:35]

If you would like to read Pastor Will’s position please click here.

The Importance of Doctrine
There is a movement in the church today to minimize doctrinal truth. In some segments, it is seen as divisive and unnecessary. We reject this movement. While our pursuit of truth and our interaction with those with whom we disagree should be humble and gracious, we nevertheless are convinced that doctrinal clarity and integrity are essential in our pursuit of biblical community and unity. First Timothy 4:16 reads, “Keep a close watch on yourself and on the teaching. Persist in this, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.” Some rejected good doctrine and it says in First Timothy 1:19 “By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith.” We desire to fulfill what it says in Second Timothy 2:15 “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.” Each of our pastoral staff must hold to the articles below and to the historic creeds of the Christian faith.*

Scripture
We accept the Bible, including the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament, as the written Words of God. The Bible is the only essential and infallible record of God’s self-disclosure to mankind. It leads us to salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Being given by God, the Scriptures are both fully and verbally inspired by God. Therefore, as originally given, the Bible is free of error in all it teaches. Each book is to be interpreted according to its context and purpose and in reverent obedience to the Lord who speaks through it in living power. All believers are exhorted to study the Scriptures and diligently apply them to their lives. The Scriptures are the authoritative and normative rule and guide of all Christian life, practice, and doctrine. They are totally sufficient and must not be added to, superseded, or changed by later tradition, extrabiblical revelation, or worldly wisdom. Every doctrinal formulation, whether of creed, confession, or theology must be put to the test of the full counsel of God in Holy Scripture. All of Scripture directly or indirectly points to Jesus. It is a picture of the incarnation of God’s history. [2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20, 21; Mark 13:31; John 8:31; John 20:31, John 5:39]

The Beginning

The Scriptures begin with the assertion that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.” The Bible and the Church historically has affirmed that God has revealed himself in creation to show humanity the creative glory of God. Those inside and outside the Church for the last two centuries have questioned and debated this assertion since the advent of darwinism. Scripture affirms repeatedly that God created the universe in a systematic way, created the Earth perfect and without flaw, and entrusted the care of creation into the hands of humanity. The center of the creation narrative is God uniquely creating humanity in his image, for his purpose, and for his pleasure and entrusting them with paradise. God gave us six days to work and one day to rest, enjoy, and to worship Him. Humanity shortly after the beginning rejected God’s creative plan, worshipped the creation, and so marred themselves that only God can redeem us from our moral, spiritual, and social failures. Since the time of the fall we long for and await the restoration of all things to God.[Genesis 1:1-2, 26, 3:1-24, Exodus 20:11, 31:17, 34:21, Leviticus 23:3, Matthew 17:1, Hosea 6:7, Romans 5:12, 1 Cor. 5:12, 45-58, Isaiah 45:20-25, Romans 14:10-12, Phil. 2:9-11, Isaiah 26, 1 Thessalonians 5:3, Revelation 14:13, Romans 8:19-23, 2 Peter 3:1-13]

The Family
In the beginning God defined and performed the first marriage as a lifetime covenant and made it the foundation of the family. God blessed humanity with two sexes of male and female and in his image he created them with unique responsibilities and privileges. God created human sexuality as a blessing to husband and wives. God as Creator designed sex to lead to reproduction and he deemed that the family be the foundational institution of human society. Children from the moment of conception are a blessing and heritage from the Lord. The family is composed of persons related to one another by marriage, blood, or adoption. Parents are to illustrate and teach their children spiritual and moral values pointing their children to Christ. Children are to honor their parents for this is the first blessing with a promise. Part of the purpose of marriage and family is to illustrate who God is and who God is not. Genesis 1:26-28; 2:15-25; 3:1-20; Exodus 20:12; Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Joshua 24:15, Proverbs 1:8, Malachi 2:14-16; 19:3-9; Mark 10:6-12; 1 Corinthians 7:1-16; Ephesians 5:21-33; 6:1-4; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:1-7]

The Trinity
There is one God from the beginning revealed in three persons: infinite, eternal, almighty, and perfect in holiness, truth, and love. In the unity of the godhead there are three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, co-existent, co-equal, co-eternal. The Father is not the Son and the Son is not the Holy Spirit, yet each is truly Deity. One God-Father, Son and Holy Spirit-is the foundation of Christian faith and life. [Genesis 1:1,26; Deuteronomy 6:4; John 1:1,3; Matthew 28:19; John 4:24; Romans 1:19,20; Ephesians 4:5,6]

God the Father
God the Father is the Creator of heaven and earth. By his word and for his glory, he freely and supernaturally created the world from nothing. Through the same Word he daily sustains all his creatures. He rules over all and is the only Sovereign. His plans and purposes cannot be thwarted. He is faithful to every promise, works all things together for good to those who love him, and in his unfathomable grace gave his Son, Jesus Christ, for mankind’s redemption. He made man for fellowship with himself, and intended that all creation should live to the praise of his glory. [Luke 10:21,22; Matthew 23:9; John 3:16; 6:27; Romans 1:7; I Timothy 1:1,2; 2:5,6; I Peter 1:3; Revelation 1:6]

Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is the eternal Word made flesh, supernaturally conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary. He is perfect in nature, teaching, and obedience. He is fully God and fully man. He was always with God and is God. Through him all things came into being and were created. He was before all things and in him all things hold together by the word of his power. He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation, and in him dwells the fullness of the godhead bodily. He is the only Savior for the sins of the world, having shed his blood and died a vicarious death on Calvary’s cross. By his death in our place, he revealed the divine love and upheld divine justice, removing our guilt and reconciling us to God. He rose bodily from the grave, victorious over death and the powers of darkness, and for a period of 40 days appeared to more than 500 witnesses, performing many convincing proofs of his resurrection. He ascended into heaven where, at God’s right hand, he intercedes for his people and rules as Lord over all. He is the Head of his body, the Church, and should be adored, loved, served, and obeyed by all. [Matthew 1:18-25; Luke 1:26-38; John 1:1; 20:28; Romans 9:5; 8:46; II Corinthians 5:21; I Peter 2:21-23; John 20:30, 31; Matthew 20:28; Ephesians 1:4; Acts 1:11; Romans 5:6-8; 6:9,10; Hebrews 7:25; Hebrews 9:28; I Timothy 3:16]

The Lordship of Christ
Scripture is clear that Jesus Christ is Lord of all. Therefore, Jesus Christ must be our passion and priority and we should aspire to both know Him and love Him more fully. We must long to see Him have preeminence in all things. We desire to see a Church of Christ-centered, “Jesus-intoxicated” people who pursue all that we do by Godʼs grace and for His glory. We believe we need the ministry of the Holy Spirit to lead us into a new and fresh intimacy and communion with the Lord Jesus that results in greater obedience to all that He commands. Christʼs Lordship must be first and foremost in our church or we will miss our most important priority and fail in all of our other pursuits. [Col. 1:18; 3:16-17, 23-24]

The Holy Spirit
The Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life in this world, convicts the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Through the proclamation of the gospel he persuades people to repent of their sins and confess Jesus as Lord. By the same Spirit a person is led to trust in divine mercy. The Holy Spirit unites believers to Jesus Christ in faith, brings about the new birth, and dwells within the new Christian. The Holy Spirit has come in to us and the world to glorify the Son. The Son in turn came to glorify the Father. He will lead the Church into a right understanding and rich application of the truth of God’s Word. He is to be respected, honored, and worshiped as God the Third Person of the Trinity. [John 14:16,17,26; 15:26,27; John 16:9-14; Romans 8:9; I Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; Galatians 5:22-26]

Empowerment by the Spirit
In addition to effecting regeneration and sanctification, the Holy Spirit also empowers believers for Christian witness and service. While the Holy Spirit at conversion indwells all genuine believers, the New Testament indicates the importance of an ongoing, empowering work of the Spirit subsequent to conversion as well. Being indwelt by the Spirit and being filled with the Spirit are theologically distinct experiences. The Holy Spirit desires to fill each believer continually with increased power for Christian life and witness, and imparts his supernatural gifts for the edification of the Body and for various works of ministry in the world. All the gifts of the Holy Spirit at work in the church of the first-century are available today in the way that they were at work then without mixture or error, are vital for the mission of the church, and are to be earnestly desired and practiced. [Ezekiel 36:27, Joel 2:28, Micah 3:8, Malachi 2:15-16, Acts 2:14-47,
Romans 8:23, 1 Corinthians 12:4-12, Galatians 5:16-26, 1 Thessalonians 1:6]

Salvation
We believe that man was created by God in His own image; that he sinned and thereby incurred physical, spiritual and eternal death, which is separation from God; that as a consequence, all human beings are born with a sinful nature and are sinners by choice and therefore under condemnation. We believe that those who repent and forsake sin and trust Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior are regenerated by the Holy Spirit and become new creatures, delivered from condemnation and receive eternal life. Those regenerated by God are called the elect of God and their salvation is not of themselves it is the gift of God [John 3:14; 5:24; John 5:30; 7:13; 8:12; 10:26; Romans 9:22; II Thessalonians 1:9; Rev. 19:3,20; 20:10;14,15; 21:18; Psalm 51:7; Jeremiah 17:9; James 1:14; Romans 3:19; 5:19; Proverbs 28:13; I John 1:9; John 3:16; John 1:13; II Corinthians 5:17; Romans 8:1, John 1:13]

The Church
God by his Word and Spirit creates the Church, calling sinful men out of the whole human race into the fellowship of Christ’s Body. By the same Word and Spirit, he guides and preserves that new redeemed humanity. The Church is not a building, religious institution or denomination. Rather, the Church universal is made up of those who have become genuine followers of Jesus Christ and have personally appropriated the gospel. The Church exists to worship and glorify God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. It also exists to serve him by faithfully doing his will in the earth. This involves a commitment to see the gospel preached and churches planted in all the world for a testimony. The ultimate mission of the Church is the making of disciples through the preaching of the gospel. When God transforms human nature, this then becomes the chief means of society’s transformation. Upon conversion, newly redeemed men and women are added to a local church, in which they devote themselves to teaching, fellowship, the Lord’s Supper, and prayer. [Ephesians 3:10; Ephesians 2:19-22; 1 Corinthians 12]

Water Baptism
Water Baptism is a sacrament of the New Testament, ordained by Jesus Christ, not only for the solemn admission of the party baptized into the visible Church, but also to be unto him a sign and seal of the covenant of grace, of his ingrafting into Christ, of regeneration, of remission of sins, and of his giving up unto God, through Jesus Christ, to walk in newness of life: which sacrament is, by Christ’s own appointment, to be continued in his Church until the end of the world. Water baptism is to be administered as a sign of the covenant. It is an act of obedience. The efficacy of baptism is not tied to that moment of time wherein it is administered; yet, notwithstanding, by the right use of this ordinance the grace promised is not only offered, but really exhibited and conferred by the Holy Spirit, according to the counsel of God’s own will, in his appointed time. [Matthew 28:18-20, 1 Cor 12:13, Rom 4:11, Col 2:11-12, Rom 6:5, Gal 3:27, Titus 3:5, Mark 1:4, Rom 6:3-5, Mat 28:19-20, John 3:5, 8. Acts 2:38, 41; Gal 3:27; Eph 5:25-26; Titus 3:5.] For more on this please read our statement on baptism.

Communion
As with water baptism, Communion that is the Lord’s Supper is to be observed by those who have become genuine followers of Christ and have professed Jesus as Lord. This sacrament symbolizes the breaking of Christ’s body and the shedding of his blood on our behalf, and is to be observed repeatedly throughout the Christian life as a sign of continued participation in the atoning benefits of Christ’s death. As we partake of the Lord’s Supper with an attitude of faith and self-examination, we remember and proclaim the death of Christ, receive spiritual nourishment for our souls, and signify our unity with other members of Christ’s body in communion with the saints. [1 Corinthians 11:23-34]

Last Things
The Consummation of all things includes the visible, personal and glorious return of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of the dead and the translation of those alive in Christ, the judgment of the just and the unjust, and the fulfillment of Christ’s kingdom in the new heavens and the new earth. In the Consummation, Satan with his hosts and all those outside Christ are finally separated from the benevolent presence of God, enduring eternal punishment, but the righteous, in glorious bodies, shall live and reign with him forever. Married to Christ as his Bride, the Church will be in the presence of God forever, serving him and giving him unending praise and glory. Then shall the eager expectation of creation be fulfilled and the whole earth shall proclaim the glory of God who makes all things new. [Matthew 16:27; Mark 14:62; John 14:3; Acts 1:11; Phil. 3:20; I Thessalonians 4:15; II Timothy 4:1; Titus 2:13; I Corinthians 4:5; I Corinthians 15; II Thessalonians 1:7-10; Revelation 20:4-6,11-15]

We appreciate your help.