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I was officially installed as the new senior pastor of the Evangelical Covenant Church in Attleboro, Massachusetts yesterday. This is the imperfect church I am now serving. I left one imperfect church to begin serving another imperfect church. We are off to a good start. It has been fun getting to know each other and to share in worship and ministry during this early stage in our relationship as pastor and congregation. There is a lot of excitement that comes with a new beginning like this, but what I am most excited about cannot be rushed. It is what comes when trust is established and this cannot be achieved in the first few weeks or months. My sense is this takes years. My hope and prayer is that God will help me to be the person and pastor he wants me to be and that I will be able to serve this imperfect congregation as faithfully as I can — given all of my personal imperfections. We are all sinful and broken human beings in need of God’s grace and in need of sharing God’s grace with others through the worship and ministries of our imperfect churches.