Two questions I get asked a lot that I want to put to rest:

1) “You only work one day a week, only for an hour on Sunday, right?” Incorrect. I don't work that whole hour, just 35 or 40 minutes of it.

2) (After one of our guest speakers spoke) “Aren't you afraid of losing your job?” No. I have worked hard to be the most replaceable person at the church.

But I get the sentiment behind #2. Our guest speakers – Mike Wolski, Taylor Brown, Matt Koll, Ryan Stroupe, and other regulars Justin Cady, Rich Sprunk, Mark Ort and Dan Thompson – all do a phenomenal job. They work hard and pray hard and pour themselves out delivering the Word of God. Their success in doing so doesn't make me “sweat over my job”. Quite the opposite. The excellence they demonstrated in competently preaching must be viewed as a huge success. Not just for me. Not just for HBC. But for the Kingdom of God.

That man in the picture with me is Pastor Bob Huber. He taught me everything. I was blessed to have such a “Father in the Gospel” for 25 years, and on July 4th – the faith became sight for him as he met Jesus face to face.

At his funeral, four men, including me, stood and testified to his faithfulness to the church, his family, and above all, to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Four pastors. Though Pastor Bob has “graduated” (as he used to call a believer's death), he multiplied himself many times over. Four of us represented countless others as we honored PB's memory and continue the work of the ministry as we await our Savior's return.

So anything good that came from our guest speakers in July (and there was much good), came as the baton of discipleship was passed from Bob to me, and from me to these guest speakers. And by God's grace, may these men pass the baton of discipleship to many others.

Who knows how many more pastors will be raised up down the line because of the way Jesus worked through Pastor Bob? Why not? I mean, pastors only have to work one day a week, anyways.

Pastor Jeff

-2 Timothy 2:2