This past weekend, I had the opportunity to attend The Summit here at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. It is an event designed around the Annual Church Conference that celebrates the past year, looks forward to the year ahead and seeks to inspire living the vision of the church. In 2006, the Journey was launched as a tool to help people to become deeply committed Christians. I wanted to share some of the characteristics of a deeply committed Christian that were shared at The Summit:
Our Journey is to Know, Love and Serve God.
Knowing God with Your Head
- Understand basic beliefs
- Working knowledge of the Bible
- United Methodist distinctives
- Ability to think theologically about moral issues
- Know, in broad terms, God’s will
Loving God with Your Heart
- Faith in God
- Heart yielded to God
- Practice the spiritual disciplines
- Demonstrate the fruit of the spirit
- Actively involved in a small group
Serving God with Your Hands
- Loving those surrounding you
- Ministry in the church
- Tithing
- Serving the community and world
- Loving and serving others
This is the vision for Christians at Resurrection. What do you think? What would you add to this list? What would you take away?
Rev. Andrew Conard 