MIKE!!!!!

Everything was created through him;

nothing—not one thing!—

came into being without him.

What came into existence was Life,

and the Life was Light to live by.

The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness;

the darkness couldn't put it out.

John 1:3-5 MSG

Mike Williams is my hero. Mike is my mentor. He taught me how to be a Christ-follower. He didn't have a magic answer. He didn't have the prefect set of rituals. He didn't administer the sacraments in the precise way. It wasn't for his excellent exegeses of the scriptures, the beauty of his liturgy or the quality of his sermons even though he was expert at all of these. It was something far far more profound. Mike taught me about the essence of Jesus. Mike taught me to love others selflessly.

So many people miss the point. They look at it backwards. They focus on the problem and not the solution. Jesus came into this world, in fact he was shot down from heaven to lighten the darkened world in order to warm the frozen, fix the broken and love the loveless. Jesus is the giant love pill that saves the world. No other love will do. No other answer fits. Nothing else works. Nothing but Jesus and his love. Mike taught me about the love of Jesus.

Mike is moving on to greater challenges. I wish him luck and pray that he touches hearts as deeply at his new mission as he did here in Elk Horn. I love him with every fiber of my being. I want to be like Mike!