February 24, 2013, We Are In This Together, Second Sunday in Lent
February 17, 2013 Bulking Up Your Muscles, First Sunday in Lent
January 27, 2013, What Does God Hear When We Are Wordless with Admiration
January 20, 2013, What Does God Hear When We Say “Thank You”
January 13,2013, What Does God Hear When We Ask for Help
January 6, 2013 What does God Hear When We Give Gifts
August 26, 2012, Clean or Dirty: You Be the Judge
August 19, 2012, Our Habits, They Make us or Break Us
August 12, 2012, “The Thin Place and the Thick Community”
I’d like to respond to your recent article in UMR. I am a pretty decent student of Wesleyan hist ory–taught it for twelve years in seminary. Our present perdicament has similarities to the reform movements in 1792(resulting in the Christian Church, one of which I now serve); 1828(resulting in the Methodist Protestant Church which merged with the ME and ME,South churches in 1939), 1843(the Wesleyan Church); 1850′s(Free Methodist); 1894(Nazarene); c.a. 1900 (Assemblies of God), etc. etc. With all those withdrawals, some over polity issues and some over holiness, the mainstream church said, “damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead” and booted their departing children out the door. (18090′s we had the “push-outers” from te bishops and the “come-outers” from the Methodists who emphasized sanctification.
I’d like to “talk” with you, but I don’t blog, don’t facebook, don’t “link-in” and done tweet! Too busy still serving a church at age 77!
don haynes