“Fulshear church of Christ”

Friday, February 01, 2019

Change can be great for some and difficult for others.  Change should never come at the expense of ignoring scripture and never be embraced when it does.  Change can be exciting when it is cast alongside of vision, provides clear direction, reflects a desired outcome, and is in keeping with the wonderful will of God.

 Thinking back to name changes in the scriptures, they appear to be connected to a personality, characteristic trait, or obvious conclusion based on proper reasoning and facts.  God changed Abram to Abraham because God had BIG plans and He wanted the new name to reflect His plans (Genesis 17:5). Jesus decided to give James and John a name change to “Boanerges” because it appears the name was descriptive of their personalities, “sons of thunder” (Mark 3:17).  It was Jacob who renamed his son Ben-Oni (son of my trouble) to Benjamin (son of my right hand) for personal reasons as found in Genesis 35:18. The apostles called a Christian servant named Joseph by a new name descriptive of his character, Barnabas, “son of encouragement” (Acts 4:36).  Saul (a Hebrew name) of Tarsus is also called Paul (a Latin name) (Acts 13:9). I assume Saul is called Paul in Gentile circles because he was specifically called by God to minister to the Gentiles (Romans 15:16). There are many more name changes in the scriptures but one of the more prominent ones is when Jesus changes the name of Simon (Hebrew) to Cephas (Aramaic)/Peter (Greek) as found in John 1:42.  

 We recently experienced a name change.  Understand it is only a location name change.  We will always keep the designation Church of Christ!  We are connected to that name (Church of Christ) by blood (Acts 4:12, 20:28).  A name that we are honored to be called. However, changing our location name from Westpark to Fulshear is a positive change with the excitement of building our future home in the city of Fulshear for sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in this place.  A name we proudly embrace and accept! Fulshear Church of Christ, now that’s nice!

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