First UMC
I Believe in Communion, Forgiveness, Resurrection, and Life Everlasting
Revelation 1:4-6 NRSV
The multi-vitamin conundrum...mixed results, true believers, skeptics, evidence varies.
I believe in (God, Jesus, Holy Spirit) and a string of results of the triune God at work.
The holy catholic Church
Little “c” meaning church universal
We don’t go to Church, we gather as the Church. [Tim Tennent from This
We Believe]
We don’t join the Church, we are the Church. [Thomas Oden from Classic Christianity]
Belonging and believing
Membership has responsibilities NOT privileges
The communion of saints
Joined together by our faith NOT our experience.
Unity is a gift not a goal.
The forgiveness of sins
The basis of what we have to offer.
People of repentance not self-help!
The resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.
Eternity is our time horizon.
Urgency without anxiety is our aim.
AMEN