Message from
Reverend Berosek

                                                   Welcome to First Presbyterian Church, Bridgeport!

    The great theologian Karl Barth had a strange interpretation of Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son. He said that it was not so much a parable about us, about our tendency to run away from the father’s house, to get lost in the “far country,” and to live like a pig. Barth said that it was a story about Jesus, about the way in which God loved us so much that he allowed his only begotten Son to journey out into the far country of sin and death, to share our lot, to suffer, to be lost in death and then, by the grace of God, to come home.

     According to Dr. Barth, Jesus is the one who went out to the far country and recklessly sacrificed in order to love us. He is the one who went on a long, perilous journey of suffering, rejection, death, and resurrection in order to find us. Jesus did this for you and for me so that we would no longer be lost.

     Therefore, in a most spectacular way, you are here reading this because God, in Jesus Christ, journeyed out and got you and claimed you and put you here. Alleluia! For that gracious and divine act, for this most sacred stirring and leading of God’s Spirit within you, thanks be to God! I pray, therefore, that this website, its resources, First Presbyterian Church, and its people may be a blessing for you as we traverse this awesome pilgrimage together, all to the glory of our blessed triune God!

Pax,

Rev. Jonathan