After the wise New Year’s Message of Pastor Tzvetan Petkov, General Conference President at the IMS, who mentioned God’s instruction for us to confirm our heavenly calling, according to 2 Peter 1:10, another excellent New Year’s Message (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaRb3F4RG1I), this time in German, by Pastor Gustavo Castellanos, Canvassing Department Leader at the General Conference of the IMS, was published on the site Reformadventisten Oesterreich and underlined at the right time, under the motto in Isaiah 60:1-2, that our Christian calling is, becoming light, to testify about God’s true character through our personal life which is protected and guided by Christ’s grace.
In addition, Pastor Gustavo emphasized that the calling in Isaiah 60:1-2 was at the same time a promise and should be accepted by faith and obedience toward God that Christ might be glorified in us through His creation work for the new man in us, just like in 2 Corinthians 4:6.
Written by Margarit Zhekov
Pastor Gustavo Castellanos during a Bible circle in Graz, Austria; a photo from the personal archive of Pastor Gustavo Castellanos.
