Back to Basics 2: 3 John

When our lives become overly complicated, it's often a call to get back to the basics. We recently had a wedding in our family. Any wedding is complicated. You have guests and a meal, details in the ceremony itself, a website. When it's an international wedding, even to get a marriage license, and all the people flying in, the whole thing can become quite complicated. As a pastor, I've married so many people and I've walked with them through all of this, and when complexity overwhelms, I keep reminding couples that it comes down to this: there's two people at the front of the church with a preacher, vows are said, there's a prayer that is uttered, and the pastor says, "What God has joined together, let no one separate." God takes two people and mysteriously makes them one. Everything else is icing on the cake. Just get back to the basics. At the start of a school year, before life gets complicated, I want to get back to the basics with 3 John.Extra reading: Deuteronomy 6:4-9Preacher: Bill Dyck