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Two Basic Commitments: An Invitation
This week you likely received a mailing from John Knox regarding our annual campaign for Generosity and Mission Giving. It’s a function of our life together that is both practical and spiritual. Stewardship is practical in the honest assessment of our plans and resources for 2026. More importantly, it is spiritual—it begins with our motivation, our trust, and our commitment to serve our Lord through the Church.
As we think about our life together in this at John Knox, may I invite us to make two fundamental commitments?
One commitment is to step forward, not backward. Sometimes people hide to avoid making a commitment: they outwait the campaign, hoping to remain unnoticed. Some folks are uncomfortable with conversation about money, so they withdraw. And sometimes people only go through the motions and so fail to engage the possibility of personal growth.
If we trust God’s care for us, we don’t need to step back or step away. We can live our life together engaged with God’s grace and trusting God’s care for us.
A second commitment is to pledge your support for our ministry. The most important metric for our ministry is not the amount of money raised, it is the number of members engaged. Your “yes” signifies your belonging, your devotion, and your promise of ongoing participation in the life Christ gives us to share together. Your financial pledge and giving joins you to the work of Jesus Christ in the world, and it makes a crucial difference in our church’s capacity to serve.
Commitments do not come lightly. One’s participation and support represent the practical expression of one’s spiritual devotion. And in this season of both stewardship commitment and pastoral transition, your commitment to life together at John Knox is more valuable than ever. As we do the spiritual work that enables our practice of ministry, may God bless us with a fresh sense of the grace that upholds us and the love that secures us.
Gratefully,
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