REV. Zachery Sarrault, Associate PASTOR
Pastor’s Corner for June 8-14, 2025
Working with God
(Genesis 11:1-9)
I like the Tower of Babel story from a historical perspective. A quick Google search will say we have 7,164 languages in the whole world! Ever wondered why we have so many languages? Turn to Genesis 11 and you’ll see why. God did it, but that wasn’t always the plan. God’s plan is unity and mankind messed it up.
If we only look at the story from an historical perspective, then God looks like the bad guy. The whole population of humanity is moving as one people, finding a specific land that they choose and decide to dwell in. In this land they decide to create their own city, making their own name. All of it to create for themselves greatness. God, seeing this, decides to “go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another’s speech.”
What’s God’s problem? Why would He disrupt such unity and teamwork? Why would God make our lives, thousands of years later, difficult with all these languages? Reread that last paragraph and look over the story again. Where is God in this plan of the people? He’s not there. And that’s the problem.
After the flood, God told Noah and his family, all of humanity, to “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.” Humanity has certainly multiplied, but they have not filled the earth. They have stayed together to create their own name and their own lives, forgetting God’s name and work for them. They took God right out of the picture. Do we ever do this?
When you wake up in the morning, what does your to-do list look like? Is it driven with the question, “What am I doing today?” I know that’s how I usually begin my day. Where is God in that question? He’s not there. We might explain it away by saying that God is always there, which is true, but do we recognize that? Too often we look at the world and our lives with our own names and plans as the goal. We forget that God has already given us a name and that He has already achieved His plan in the cross. We can forget what God has done, is doing, and will continue to do and we can forget that God wants to use us in that plan.
God’s desire is still unity. It always has been, but with Him at the center because He knows that we need Him and His gifts to live well in the good life according to His salvation. This week, I’ll give you (and me) a challenge. Rather than asking the question, “What am I doing today?” ask “What is God already doing and how am I a part of it?”. The list may still look the same, but it will be made with a different perspective.
Your growing brother in Christ,
Pastor Zach Sarrault
Ordination and Installation of Pastor Zachery Sarrault (July 18, 2021):
Sunday was a great day at RLC! We celebrated the Ordination and Installation of our new Associate Pastor Zachery Sarrault. It was a beautiful service with a heartfelt sermon by his father, Pastor Joel Sarrault. Congratulations and welcome, Pastor Zach! Thank you to all who participated in this special day.
Pastor Sarrault Ordination and Installation
Pastor Zachery Sarrault Ordination and Installation Bulletin
From Pastor Zach (July 16, 2021):
Hey Resurrection Family!
Kelsey and I are finally here! We have finished up at St. Louis, seen family in Michigan, and moved into our new home. After all of that traveling and living out of suitcases, we couldn’t be happier to finally be back to something comfortable. Comfort is always something nice to hold on to. All of us have something that makes us comfortable, whether it be a family member or friend, a good book or fishing pole, a quilting machine or a wood shed, we all have our go-to comfort places. This is part of being human! We love comfort!
The thing with comfort is that sometimes we get too comfortable. We can settle in and tell ourselves that we never wish to see any change. “Life would be perfect if I could just stay in my recliner with Tom Sawyer all day.” Or whatever your comfort may be. Sadly, we know that this isn’t how life works. No matter how much we enjoy our comforts, ‘real life’ happens and it disrupts those little joys. But, is it ‘real life’ or is it God, calling us into His mission to do more than just the comfortable?
Jesus never led a life of comfort. From the manger to the cross and even the empty tomb, Jesus’ life was one of challenge and the uncomfortable. When one of the scribes declared that he would follow Jesus, all Jesus had to say was, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head” (Matt. 8:20). Kind of an odd response, one that rightly scared away the scribe. Probably would have scared me too!
So, what does this mean for us? Are we supposed to throw away all of our earthly comforts and live lives of asceticism? Not at all! But we are called to know where these comforts come from and who our ultimate comfort is. In all things, comfort or challenge, our Lord and Savior stands before us, behind us, and beside us. As Jesus prepared His disciples for life after His death and resurrection, Jesus told His followers, “I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
There is our ultimate comfort! Not in our little hide-a-ways or indulgences, but in the One who has overcome all sin and who has promised us peace. Our comfort is in the faith that we have through Christ’s death and resurrection. Our comfort is in the kingdom of God that has already been given to us! That is a comfort that is never changing and never ending. No matter what God has in store the Sarraults in North Carolina, we know that the comfort of our Lord will always prevail!
In the comfortable and the uncomfortable, but always in Christ,
Pastor Zach Sarrault
From Pastor Jonathan (July 15, 2021):
There's a new face at Resurrection! Seminarian Zach Sarrault and wife Kelsey made it down to Cary last Monday, and soon-to-be "Pastor Zach" is already taking part in leadership team activities here at RLC. He will serve as Associate Pastor at Resurrection... meaning he will be working full-time in all aspects of ministry: preaching and teaching, visiting the homebound, discipling others, showing up at youth events, leading school and preschool chapel services, making friends in his neighborhood, evangelizing... and doing it all as one who is privileged to be an Under-Shepherd of the Good Shepherd, Jesus Christ. We are very blessed to have him and Kelsey in our midst!
Though the Sarraults hail from Michigan they know a little bit about our area already since Zach served as Vicar at Hope Lutheran Church in Wake Forest from 2019 to 2020. At church you can find Pastor Zach in the Associate Pastor's office, next door to the main office on the left side. I look forward to working with Pastor Zach and seeing him welcomed as warmly by all of you as Juli and I were not so long ago! May God bless and further your ministry among us, Pastor!