George Emm, Pastor

Pastor Emm was the one who taught my baptism classes, at Willowdale Seventh-day Adventist Church in Toronto. I remember as a 10-year old having a conversation with him saying that I wanted to be baptized but I wasn’t good enough yet. With sound theology and wisdom, he responded. “We don’t have to be better before we come to Jesus; we come to Jesus and He makes us better.”

Today, as a more mature Christian, I realize the truth of Pastor Emm’s words. It is as we live and walk with Jesus that we become more like Him. In a world that conditions us to believe we must earn the things we receive, receiving salvation as a gift is so counter-cultural.