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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
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With General Conference breathing down our necks one would think there would be more updates on this site right? Well, I would think so. The reason why there aren't updates is because the past few months have been so busy I haven't had the chance to get caught up! However, I have been blogging over at http://fuzzythinking.davidmullens.com (my personal blog). I have some thoughts on Wesley and other things. There are also a couple of new articles on the M3 site. I am getting caught up so I hope to add some more content here. Thanks for your patience, understanding and continued reading! - Dave. |
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Written by David
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Monday, 19 November 2007 |
My bishop sent an email out on our conference email list updating us about the Convocation of Extended Cabinets. According to the UM News Service the "Convocation of Extended Cabinets" met for the first time in 40 years. Out of this convocation came, in some ways, a fresh and renewing vision for the UMC. Using the numbers 1,2,3,4,5,7 (I have no idea where 6 went), they stated:
- One mission statement.
- Two breathing lessons.
- Three simple rules for living as United Methodists.
- Four focus areas for our United Methodist Church in the next quadrennium.
- Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations.
- Seven Vision Pathways to the Future
After reading through these directions, I was surprised. Not only did I feel they were quite good, I started experiencing something else; hope. Hope is something, as a UM, I've found elusive for quite a while. So, I want to take some time to reflect on these six (There's number 6! glad to have it in the mix) directions or focuses.
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Written by David
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
If Psalm 46:10 says to be still and know that I am God, why do I feel so pressured? If God is in control, then why am I so stressed? What causes me to continued to live a frantic pressured activity-
I have discovered my pressured life coming from at least three sources: Arrogance, lack of trust and fear.
Yes, arrogance is a source of my pressured life. I'm pretty thick headed, so it has taken me a while to see this. It basically works like this: I am so busy because I believe the more I do, the more gets done. So, I take on more and more activities. I believe that I make a difference and the more that I do the more difference I can make. This approach seems to make sense, it seems to work, and it seems like a wonderful attitude to have. Yet as I add more and more activities to my life, I tend not experience this stillness the Psalmist refers to.
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