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| Some ministries of the Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church |
Greetings Sisters and
Brothers…
1 Corinthians 13
13:4Love is patient; love is kind; love is not
envious or boastful or arrogant
13:5or rude. It does not
insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs;
13:6it does not rejoice in
wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth.
13:7It bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Chapter 13 of 1 Corinthians is known as the “love”
chapter. We often hear or read it at weddings, which is useful and poetic, but
really, Apostle Paul was using the words to promote unity and diversity in the
congregation. Yes, we can argue over which spiritual gift is “all that and a
bag of chips”. But for Christians and congregations “love will be us together”
(if you remember Captain and Tenneille).
This coming Sunday I will
be discussing anger and how counter-productive it is. I will encourage love as
a much favorable response. I will make the argument that the church, including
the Indiana Conference of the United Methodist Church is a continuing extension
of the mission of Jesus.
I provide a link to
various ministries of the Indiana Conference and ask you to prayerfully
consider making a contribution to one of these ministries.
https://www.inumc.org/ministries/
Love, and constructive
response is far better than anger which has disastrous consequences as you
shall see me demonstrate Sunday!
