Posts from June 2013 (Page 2)

   The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, 2012, states, “John Wesley believed that the living core of the Christian faith was revealed in Scripture, illumined by tradition, vivified in personal experience, and confirmed by reason” (Our Theological Task Paragraph105 Theological Guidelines: Sources and Criteria) . We continue our worship series this Sunday called Quadrilateral with our attention on Reason.  Our worship will be rooted in  Romans 12.1-3  and the United Methodist Book of Discipline. On “Reason” from…

“We are now challenged by traditions from around the world that accent dimensions of Christian understanding that grow out of the sufferings and victories of the downtrodden.”  Too often tradition is seen as the history of European and American Christians, rather than the diverse flowering of many different expressions of Christianity.  The larger understanding of tradition suggests that particular traditions represent African, Latin American, and Asian traditions must be included as well.  (from United Methodist Doctrine by Scott J. Jones…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdfX7ut8gw] …without our Traditions our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof!

“Christian tradition can …be a resource for the revitalization of the church in our time, but we have to be very caution, for the sake of honesty, about the extent to which we can idealize the past and our relationship to it.  We face the temptation of constructing fictive, idealized cultures to satisfy our longing for deeper roots.  Methodist people can take  (John) Wesley as one bridge to the whole Christian past, but we cannot find in (John) Wesley a…

The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, 2012, states, “John Wesley believed that the living core of the Christian faith was revealed in Scripture, illumined by tradition, vivified in personal experience, and confirmed by reason” (Our Theological Task Paragraph105 Theological Guidelines: Sources and Criteria) . This week our worship series called “Quadrilateral”  will focus on Tradition.  Our Weekly Schedule June 2:  2 Timothy 3.10-17 (Scripture) June 9:  2 Timothy 1.3-7 (Tradition) June 16: Romans 12.1-3 (Reason) June 23: 1 John 4.1 (Experience)   Words on Tradition from The…