Dear Second Family -

Each spring dozens of ‘gypsies’ swarmed to a place in Ft Worth, Texas called the House of Tomorrow. No this wasn’t a futuristic home furnishing store or a display at a theme park. And the gypsies weren’t moths – they were young men and women hoping to be hired to sing and dance for the summer at the Casa Manana theatre built by New York theatre impresario Billy Rose for the Texas Centennial Celebration in 1936.

 

The summer after my sophomore year at TCU I made the cut. I had been chosen for the privilege of rehearsing and performing ten hours a day, six days a week for $120 (two shows on Saturday!). I would earn the union card that would take me to New York where I eventually walked through the doors of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church!

 

The director that summer of stock theatre told us, “You are the chosen, the golden ones.”   Well, we felt like the ‘golden choosies’ because we had worked hard, auditioned well and were fortunate!

 

This Sunday we will be ordaining the next classes of Elders and Deacons – men and women in whom you have recognized qualities of leadership, obedience, collegiality,  commitment to Jesus Christ and this church, and evidence of the Holy Spirit!

 

But we are all chosen, elect if you will, by God and for God. What does it mean to be God’s elect? How should it look? How would it feel?

 

Come Sunday and we’ll engage scripture. We’ll lay on hands. We’ll pray. We’ll sing.  We’ll know!

 

See you in church!

 

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