This past weekend was the Annual Conference Meeting for the Oregon Free Methodist churches. Many denominations have something like this, and to be honest I kind of enjoy these. The first night is always special; it is an ordination service. This weekend marks one year since my ordination last year at Annual Conference! The second day is a full day of business where we discuss things and vote on them, it’s a cool process.
I like that all the pastors, or most of the pastors, are in one place where we can all connect and catch up, it’s not often we are all in one place. Further, our Bishop comes and runs the Annual Conference meetings. He is an incredible man of God who consistently brings powerful words of wisdom and direction for our Conference and our denomination. We are blessed to have a leader who follows Jesus so passionately! He writes a great blog, you can follow it here: Bishop Matt Thomas. This year he brought up some significant critiques of the American Free Methodist Church which I will write about later. For now I will leave you with this quote from one of his messages to us,
“To be honest, I often get annoyed that after our worship everything changes. We seem to have what looks like furver for the Lord when we sing, but when the music stops that seems to go away and we become very dispassionate about our faith. There is something incredibly broken about living a Christian faith like that.” Bishop Matt Thomas
Thoughts?
