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At our December dessert, Bob Ives* shared two analogies regarding the value of our work with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and encouraged participants to prayerfully consider supporting us.  He gave me permission to share these analogies with a wider audience as we seek to address our current operating shortfall of ~$10,000. Below's one analogy, another coming tomorrow.

There is an analogy in Colossians 2:7 that pictures the ministry of Tom Grosh. It describes the growth of Christians. "Rooted and being built up in him" (Jesus). Rooted is a perfect verb form, begun in the past with on going implications. But "being built up" is a present passive form. It's what is ongoing. How do people get built up? They need a builder to help them, the sort of ministry Tom Grosh carries on. When a builder is working on constructing a house, he has the architect's plans laid out on a table. These plans are God's Word. The builder needs to constantly refer to the architect plans or the building may look strange. And a builder often has other construction people to help him, people he brings together in a community of workers to keep building the structure. That's the ministry Tom Grosh has with Intervarsity.

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*Bob's an InterVarsity Christian Fellowship alumnus who served as senior pastor of Grantham Brethren in Christ (PA) for 30 years and an adjunct professor at Messiah College for 34 years. While at the College, he taught a class on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, and other Oxford Christian Writers.