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A message from Pastor Steve
Being a
teenager has never been easy. Then as now, music plays
an important role in getting through it. During those
times when no one seemed to understand I would often
retreat to music. Back then it came on LPs not CDs. I
would put the record on the Hi Fi and plug in the
headphones and find refuge in the music of the day. For
me that was Simon and Garfunkel, with words like:
“When you’re weary, feeling small,
when tears are in your eyes I will dry them all. I’m on your side, O when times get rough and friends
just can’t be found.
Like a bridge over troubled waters, I will lay me down.”
The image of someone being a
bridge; someone laying down their life for me; someone
connecting with me so I would not be alone was, and is,
a powerful image in my life. And now here I am, 35
years later, called to be a pastor of a community of
people called “Bridge of Life”. What a powerful
metaphor to use to talk about how God is at work in our
lives.
At Bridge of Life we are about
“making connections”. So much of our lives are
“disconnected” that there is a deep hunger for
connections. We exist to make Christ know as the Bridge
of Life, to connect people with the life giving grace of
God and with one another. Since our goal is to connect
with those who are not currently a part of a faith
community our approach is a little different from most
traditional Lutheran congregations. Our culture has
changed, we can’t just announce we are here and expect
people to show up. We need to find ways to connect with
their lives, to start where they are at. God is already
there working in their lives. By offering worship that
engages culture, using the images and music they are
already used to, and a hospitality that lets them know
that someone cares, we seek to be the body of Christ
here in this place.
Pastor Steve Meyer
Pastor Steve with Diane and their two daughters Ana and
Katrina
devotion
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