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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 22. The Most Significant Arena
Methodism began as a way of life. Wesley organized people into societies, classes, and bands in order to provide a disciplined accountability to sustain growth in Christ and growth in service. Early...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 23. Metrics and the...
Vines, branches, seeds, vineyards, farmers, fig trees, harvests, sowers, soils, weeds, roots. Fruitfulness provides a metaphor for many profound aspects of the spiritual life and the Christian journey....
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 24. A Healthy Urgency
Find a comfortable position in a peaceful place. Bring a cup of coffee. Take a deep breath. Breathe in slowly, and then release. I’m about to share bad news. Everyone who loves you before you read this...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 25. The Best Organizational...
The first concern of the Call to Action is not structural change. The critical question is how to shift attention, resources, and energy toward enriching and extending high-quality ministries through...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 26. Cultivating Clergy...
Imagine that you chair the History Department of a university, and three tenured professors announce their retirement. Student enrollment has declined and finances are tight, so you close one position...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 27. The Vicious Habit
Elections are drawing near in the U. S., and I’m already feeling bombarded by political ads. They barge into my driving time through radio spots, interrupt the rare moments I enjoy watching television,...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 28. “Laid Aside By Thee”
The Covenant Prayer, composed and adapted by John Wesley, invites complete humility and obedience to God’s service, asking God to work through us or to work around us, and to take us to places and to...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 29. Somewhere Out There
Somewhere out there is a five-year-old boy who doesn’t know that right now plans are being made by a congregation he’s never heard of to offer a neighborhood vacation Bible school that will change the...
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Remember the Future: 30 Days of Preparation – Day 30. We See A New Church
I recently spoke with some of the laity, clergy, and bishops who have given direction to Call to Action. Often I return from meetings with a low-grade depression, the discussions confirming the...
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Remember the Future: Praying for the Church and Change
By Bishop Robert Schnase Coming mid-May Buy it from Cokesbury Bishop Schnase’s 30-day Remember the Future series inspired you as we counted down to General Conference. Now as Annual Conference season...
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