This series is about your thoughts. Each day I will post a sentence starter and invite you to finish it with a comment.
I hope the United Methodist Church…
I heard about the young pastors’ network yesterday and am thinking about putting in an application. From the website:
…a partnership between the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection and Ginghamsburg Church.
The Young Pastors’ Network is designed specifically for high capacity clergy within the United Methodist Church who are under the age of 35. Network candidates must be nominated by their bishops based on each candidate’s potential and drive to serve as a future leader of a large membership church within the annual conference.
Another project with great potential for renewal within the denomination. This is really exciting! It feels like the movement of God’s Spirit.
If you are a young clergy person in the United Methodist Church, I want to make you aware of these links and upcoming video project (Project started by Jenny Smith):
If you are a young United Methodist clergy in Kansas make sure and check out:
I am excited about the potential for renewal within the United Methodist Church and I believe that projects like this - grassroots and potentially viral - can help make a positive impact.
At Resurrection, we are encouraged to write our prayers for worship before the service. The hope is that this will be able to provide a prayer that is mindful of non and nominally religious persons and also is an intentional part of worship.
Beginning today, I am going to include all of the prayers that I write for worship in an online document. Please feel free to use any portion of a prayer or a prayer in its entirety if you feel that it would become a meaningful part of a worship service.
You can find this this and also the resources from my recent blogging presentation in under Resources. Enjoy!
Is the Holy Spirit equal to the Father and the Son or is it a go-between? Diagrams…
This question included a drawing of my description of a way of Visualizing the Trinity that Thomas Weinandy’s thesis might suggest. I think that this question points out a possible weakness in this way of thinking about the relationships between the persons. It does seem to put a lower importance on the person of the Holy Spirit.
In answer to your question - I believe that the Holy Spirit is no less than the Father and the Son a person of the Trinity. I recognize my own tendency to assign the Holy Spirit a lesser role as I am less familiar with talking and thinking about the Holy Spirit - as a result of my background in the United Methodist Church vs a background that may put more emphasis on the Holy Spirit (i.e. a more charismatic tradition).
This question came out of a young adult small group taster last Sunday morning in which I taught about the question “What is the Trinity?”
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