We start this year’s Annual Conference this coming Sunday, June 7. This year, for the first time in a long, long, time, the Central Texas Annual Conference will meet in a church, not in a convention center. We will not have assigned seats with name placards.
We will attend a Texas Ranger’s baseball game together [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘methodist’
June 2, 2009
Seeking Laity
May 20, 2009
Time flies
It is hard to believe, but 20 years ago this month I graduated from Asbury Theological Seminary.
Besides the move from Wilmore back to Texas, I have moved 7 times in those 20 years, serving 7 different churches, two campus ministries, and one children’s home. I have grown in ways I would not have, perhaps could [...]
July 17, 2008
JC Observations
If you are a Bishop presiding over a session of jurisidctional conference while a fellow Bishop is speaking at the podium, do you watch the speech on a monitor, facing away from the speaker, or do you watch the actual, live presentation
June 2, 2008
General Conference @ Annual Conference
We are congratulating ourselves and one another for our hosting of General Conference. “If there’s something we are really good it, it is greeting fellow United Methodists with great hospitality.”
Wow. Now, taken in the context of the pages and hours of guidelines and training, that we were hospitable should come as no surprise.
That [...]
May 5, 2008
Making Disciples AND Transforming the World
As I’ve already shared, the United Methodist Church has adopted a new mission statement: “To make disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.” The decision to adopt this happened Tuesday, April 29th.
At least twice since then, I’ve heard reference made to the “dual purposes” of the church. Sometimes these are [...]
March 30, 2008
Christianity Consumed
To what extent ought worship experiences be designed according to to request/suggestion of the congregation?
