ONE THING TO SAY 6-11-17
It is Annual Conference
time in Methodism, when all the preachers and lay members from the
congregations in a Conference [geographical area] gather to worship and
transact business… and accept retirements. At his retirement speech at his
Annual Conference, one preacher said, “Those of you who have heard me over the
years will understand that I really had only two themes.”
Afterwards, someone
overheard two of his colleagues talking about it. “You mean there was a second
one?”
Well, not if he had really
understood preaching. When I would get worried about finding some new way to
tell “the old, old story,” Helen would remind me, “You have only one thing to
do in worship each week, and that’s to remind us that God loves us.”
Morrie Schwartz, of Tuesdays With Morrie, said, “Love is the
only rational act.”
Soren Kierkegaard said
that “Purity of heart is to will one thing.” That one thing is love.
John Wesley told his
preachers that he expected them to “become perfect in love.” Not perfect in
knowledge or morality or preaching. Perfect in love.
So, no, there was not a
second one. We have only one thing to say to one another: Love.
JRMcF
I tweet as yooper1721.
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