We’ve completed another Spirit-filled day here at Annual Conference in Peoria. And while I felt the anointing several times today, we struggled with issues today that I question...finances, inclusiveness, and systemic issues of the Church. Please realize I believe each of these are important issues and they are worthy of our time, but I wonder if we at times approach them without the faith and assurance we are told to have. In Matthew 6:26-34 Jesus tells us, “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.” Again, I realize these are important issues, but it seems to me we run around shouting, “How will we pay for…, How do we make people happy…, How do we organize…” when we should really be asking how we as the Church can keep the main thing the main thing! Right now, I must go, ordination service tonight.
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