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Leading the Way, all the Way Home

10/3/2013

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Pastor Chuck Smith has gone home. The founder of Calvary Chapel, and the man many consider to have ignited the Jesus Movement of the sixties and seventies, is now face to face with his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.  I can't remember a time when he wasn't preaching, teaching,  leading the body of Christ. 

Many thousands have been praying for Pastor Chuck since he revealed, nearly two years ago now, that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer. Pastor Chuck never let lung cancer define him. He kept preaching. He kept teaching. He kept living for Jesus!

While undergoing cancer treatments, he was in that pulpit at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa nearly every Sunday. He continued nationwide broadcasts, co-hosting "Pastor's Perspective." He taught mid-week Bible studies. 

As Pastor Greg Laurie, of Harvest Fellowship Church in Riverside, remarked on his Facebook page just a few hours ago, "I can't help but think of the Apostle Paul's words to Timothy, 'I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only, but also to all who have loved His appearing.' (2 Timothy 4:7-8)" Amen!

For fifty years, Pastor Chuck Smith has been a role model for Godly leadership. He has shown us how to boldly live out our faith in our daily lives. He has been transparent, firmly grounded in the Word of God, compassionate, and so very, very faithful to his Lord.

It seems fitting, that as he lived, so he died. Today, Pastor Chuck showed us all how to die in this physical realm - how to burst through the barrier with zeal, how to face this physical death unblinkingly. Today is the day he receives his crown!

Can't you just hear it?

 "Well done,good and faithful servant. . .Now enter the joy of the Lord!" (Matt.25:23)

Thank you, Pastor Chuck. Even as you passed from this life into the next, you showed us the way.


Blessings & Joy,
Cara & Patti
Classic Christianity

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Ricky P
10/3/2013 12:02:08 pm

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