I’m on vacation – doing VBS at the beach-close church and then beach in the afternoon. Using a 7 topic piece of advice from John Wesley for a week’s worth of devotions that I will pre-release on my blog page – free up my mornings for jumping right into VBS…  Have a great week!

Seven of John Wesley’s Practices Can Change Hearts Today – an article by Roger Ross: Tactics that John Wesley used to get the Word of God out… The author of this blog reminds us to use these tactics ourselves! Seven practices emerged as characteristic of the early Methodist movement.

NUMBER 6 – Give the Ministry to the Laity

 “A team member who rides the bench and a Christian who sits in a pew share an eerie similarity — they both watch other people play. Christianity was never designed to be a spectator sport. As the early Methodist movement grew rapidly, Wesley soon took his mother’s advice and allowed laypersons, both men and women, to oversee classes (small groups) and preach in the society meetings (large groups). When he released the energies of the laity, the ministry multiplied even faster.”

 http://www.churchleadership.com/leadingideas/leaddocs/2016/160330_article.html

(AMEN – YES – We are the church!!! And we are all able to share the Word – and absorb it ourselves – go directly to the Word – the curtain is torn – nothing to keep us from Jesus directly. Then we can share – be educated in the Word – as Peter suggests in his letter. And SHARE SHARE SHARE – connect with others in your own experiences. Connect with them in theirs! AMEN)