Special Speaker: Nash Leggott
The main message centers on finding comfort, truth, and sufficiency in God, especially in seasons of grief and hardship. God, our Shepherd, consistently leads, protects, and provides for His people.
Key Elements
- ✨Acknowledging & Validating Emotions: We begin by acknowledging the pain of loss. Emotions—including sadness and anger—are God-given and appropriate to express, as shown in the Psalms. But feelings are not ultimate reality; hope exists beyond them.
- 📖Comfort in Loss: For believers, the passing of a loved one means being embraced by their Savior in heaven, free from tears, pain, and suffering, dwelling with God.
- ✝️God as the Shepherd (Psalm 23): David understood the shepherd’s role to lead, protect, and provide.
- 🤝Leading: God guides His people to green pastures and still waters, paths of righteousness. Jesus calls His own sheep by name and leads them.
- 🤝Protecting: The rod and staff bring comfort, defending against predators. God ensures no one can snatch His people from His hand.
- 🤝Providing: God supplies needs—from manna in the wilderness to the gift of salvation. Jesus is the door to salvation and the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for the sheep.
- ✨Eternal Salvation & Security: Through Christ’s death and resurrection, believers receive eternal life. This salvation is secure and cannot be taken away.
- 📖Relationship with God & Sanctification: God desires prayerful relationship. The Holy Spirit convicts of sin and leads believers in sanctification, shaping them into Christlikeness.
- ✝️Community & Confession: Believers are called to honesty and mutual confession, praying for one another’s healing. Struggles are not borne alone.
- 🤝Mission & Glorifying God: Our mission is to make disciples and glorify God through lives that please Him.
References
- 📖Psalm 23
- 📖John 10:1–18, 27–29
- 📖James 5:16
