I'm off to spend a couple of days at our Annual Conference. United Methodists are good a getting together for meetings. We will be at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland, until Saturday afternoon.
In 1784 there were a few preachers and other people getting together to begin the Methodist Episcopal church in order to spread scriptural holiness across the land. We have lost our touch and our emphasis and our vitality. It's very hard to keep such vigor for so long. But we shouldn't give up.
We are going to look a lot at vital churches to see if we can learn from them and copy them. We are going to be encouraged to become a vital church ourselves. That's a tough trick, can you change your personality? Not easily anyway. But by conversion to a new perspective of what God can do and what we are willing to do with God's help and God's direction, vitality can grow.
Say a prayer for us as we gather. May we sense a movement of the Spirit above and beyond our own understanding, so that we become those who make a difference and bring a blessing from God to others.
PS. Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. May you take time to thank God for the sacrifices that men and women have made so that we can pursue what God calls us to do with such freedom.
Pastor Jeff (PJ)
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