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And with this variety, you are showing

us what Presbyterian worship looks like.
The Presbytery does not look like it did
forty years ago. It does not sound like it

did forty years ago. And it does not even
taste like it did forty years ago.

Those kind of changes may be disap-
pointing for some people who look and
sound—and eat!—like I do. The news is Rev. Forrest Claassen
clear: Americans do not agree on what

Americans should look like. And that is a
sad thing.

But the Bible is clearer: God declares
what the Church should look like. And
when I look at the Presbytery, and when

I join you in celebrating your forty years
of ministry here, I see the Church look-
ing more and more like what God has in
store on the Day of Christ’s final tri-

umph—a great multitude that no one
could count, from every nation, from all

tribes and peoples and languages, stand-
ing before the throne of God and before
the Lamb, ascribing salvation and glory
to God and to the Lamb. [see Rev. 7]

As you gather here to praise Christ in
celebration, you teach us a little more of Susan Skoglund

who we are together as the Presbytery of Thank you for your role in that work.
Los Ranchos. You teach us a little more Thank you for your presence here. Thank
of who we are together as the Body of you for your last forty years, as faithful

Christ. And you help us become more partners in ministry alongside us in the
like the Church that God plans for us to Presbytery of Los Ranchos. May you
be, joyously together, for all eternity. flourish even more over the next forty.

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