Firstfruits
If you have your Bibles, I’d invite you to turn with me to the book of Proverbs. We’re going to take a break this morning from our series in the book of Hebrews to look at the text that has been chosen by the deacon stewardship committee for our theme verse for Commitment Sunday. Today is the Lord’s Day on which we make our commitments to the support of the church’s work and worship for the year to come. And so at the end of this service we’ll make our pledges for the 2014 budget. And the deacon stewardship committee has chosen the theme of “Firstfruits,” which is in fact a very important theological theme in both the Old and the New Testament. The idea of firstfruits is mentioned at least thirty-one times in the Bible. And it’s not just an Old Testament…