First Workers’ Meeting of the Quadrennium Held January 7

Pastor Brown attending the Bahamas Conference session were he
was their devotional speaker at their workers meeting.

 After a delicious breakfast in the annex of the Grant’s Town Church, workers of the Bahamas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists assembled in the sanctuary for the first workers’ meeting of the new Quadrennium, January 7, 2007. Bringing the devotional message at that meeting was Pastor Everett Brown, president of Central Jamaica Conference. Using Philippians 3:1-10 as his scriptural base, he reminded the workers that the focus of 2007 is hope.

In his address to the large group of workers gathered, Pastor Brown said that, as a worker, he would like to spend the rest of his life sharing Jesus, the Living Word, with a hopeless and dying world. He asked the poignant question, “Do we know Christ?” By “know” he said he meant having an intimate relationship with Jesus.

According to the chosen text, Pastor Brown said that Paul’s philosophy of knowing Christ was not intellectual but intimate. Paul was willing to trade all that he had acquired for a lasting knowledge of God. He wanted an experience with Christ. Pastor Brown suggested that every member develop an intimate relationship that would shape their world view, their thought, work, attitude, and priorities in life. To know Christ, Pastor Brown said, is to experience life. Anything that hinders our knowledge of Christ as we work in the church must be expunged. Again he posed the question, “How will it prosper the worker if after knowing the work, our own life is impoverished and wretched?”

Pastor Brown called on all workers to join together in removing selfishness and self-centeredness, “Let us lift up Jesus Christ,” he said, “Let us promote Him in all our relationships and in our work.” When the work is done our reward is sure. Nothing will rob us of what God has in store for us. God will fulfill His promise. Today we must begin to experience eternal life by the way we live and conduct ourselves

 

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