Alexandria Covenant Church

The Great Demotion

Episode Summary

Join us for a message from guest speaker Dr. Jason McConnell! Dr. McConnell brings almost three decades of pastoral leadership, serving faithfully in rural congregations and championing the vitality of small-town churches. Before becoming Director of the Rural Church Institute, he served for 22 years as Senior Pastor of the East Franklin Union Church and Franklin United Church—a multisite ministry in the dairy farming community of Franklin, Vermont.

Episode Notes

Acts 1:8 ESV

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

1. God rarely works the way we expect.
2. God's plans are perfect even when they seem illogical.
3. God values out of the way people and out of the way places.
4. Small and rural matter to God just as much as large and urban.
5. Downward mobility can be just as divine as upward mobility.
6. Our identity must never rest on our performance.
7. True success is measured not by numbers, but by faithfulness and obedience.