The Full Text of Bishop Sandy Millar’s Sermon at the Installation of the Rev. Tory Baucum

Posted by Kendall Harmon

I don’t need to remind you that there is a war on for the very soul of the Church. But your courage, if I may say this, humbly, and your steadfastness in the face of a new and speciously sophisticated manifestation of evil has won you many admirers all over the world.
And now I want to suggest to you – it’s time to GO FOR IT. To put up your sails for the wind of the Spirit is blowing. Look after each other, look after Tory and Elizabeth, that family; and Tory and Elizabeth, look after them.

The wind is blowing, and the Lord’s promise is as real today as ever it was. As far as you can, put the unpleasant things behind you. The Lord is doing a NEW THING do you not see it? There are thousands out there waiting to hear that God loves them. There is a task to be done before the Lord returns. There are millions of people to be touched with that sense of joy and peace and purpose and grace and forgiveness and love which you carry as the messengers for God. But it starts, it continues and it ends with Peter’s cry from the heart ‘Lord, you know everything’ ‘You know that I love you’. And Jesus’ kind reply ‘Feed my sheep’.

Let’s have a moment of quiet if we may and I would love to encourage any of you and each of you in your own way with the Lord to re-dedicate yourselves. Don’t get distracted now, time is short. Re-dedicate yourselves if you’d like to and I’m going to end with a little prayer in which you could do that. Re-dedicate yourselves to the service of God, to the welfare of the Church for whom Jesus is coming back and the glory of God’s name in this place.

Read it all.

Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Anglican Provinces • Church of England (CoE) • Church of Uganda • CANA • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Evangelism and Church Growth • Preaching / Homiletics

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Posted October 31, 2007 at 5:54 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Stephen Noll wrote:

Congratulations to Tory Baucum. Having had ties to Truro Church throughout my ordained ministry since 1971 and having had Tory as a student in seminary many years ago, I can say with confidence that this church has been served by the finest leadership - and it will continue so.

October 31, 11:08 pm | [comment link]
2. CharlesB wrote:

Thank God for Sandy Millar and all he does for the Kingdom.

November 1, 6:17 am | [comment link]
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