A Pastor’s Greatest Accomplishment

Dr. Halverson pastored Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Maryland, for twenty-three years. He did what pastors do-everything from preaching and counseling to marrying and burying. But he believed his most important function was pronouncing his carefully crafted benediction at the end of each service:

Wherever you go, God is sending you.Wherever you are, God has put you there.God has a purpose in your being right where you are.Christ, who indwells you by the power of his Spirit,wants to do something in and through you.Believe this and go in his grace, his love, his power.In the…