Dear friends,
Boats do not catch fish. Rods and reels and hooks and lines and sinkers by themselves do not catch fish, only people catch fish and that is why the fishing business is our business.
That is why our mission statement is so important ‘To know Christ and make Christ known’.
Leading people to be different through knowing Christ is the greatest difference you will ever make in this life.
I realize there may be some here today who are not followers of Jesus.
I want to ask you to think about something as you look around at some of the people beside you who may be followers of Jesus and if you are a follower of Jesus, I want you to consider this as well.
We were all fish once and the reason why we want to fish for you is because somebody fished for us.
We were caught. We were cleaned and we were changed by the power of Jesus Christ and we love it.
If you are a follower of Jesus, I want you to understand that everyday Jesus Christ wants St Bart’s fisher people to launch out into the sea of humanity and go deep soul fishing, because the church's primary business, the Christian's primary business is the fishing business and no matter what else we do, nor how well we do it, if we ever get out of the fishing business, we are out of business.
Canon Gary