Spiritual Joy

I had the honor of attending the First African Baptist Church 6th District combined with Faith Fellowship Church under the leadership of Pastor Moses Gordon II. He is truly a gracious man. He allowed me to tape his service and afterward to interview his beautiful members. Pastor Gordon has two churches that are greatly reduced in number. His son who preached a sermon out of the book of Phillipians told me that one church had 1400 members and the other abu 1,000. There were only 200 people in church that Sunday (March 26) and many of them had traveled great distances to be in service.

Watching them and listening to their stories put my own life in perspective. I have no reason to complain when I can get up and worship on Sunday. These people wish that they could do that. They had true spiritual joy. The joy that Paul talked about. He said he had learned to be content in whatever stage in life whether he was rich or poor, healthy or sick because true joy comes from within.

When I saw the peace the members exhibited, I got a glimpse of what Paul was talking about in Phillipians. It is something I am going to strive for. The photo you see is a picture of the original church. Rev Gordon III told me that the church had more than 6 feet of water.