Poems, Prayers, and Promises from a Country Parson

In an earlier post I pleged to post some good quotes and thoughts from Bishop Arthur J. Moore's autobiography Bishop To All Peoples.

Though a short book, just shy of 150 pages, and a "not so new book", published in 1973, Bishop Moore raised several interesting and timely points.

"Methodism must be flexible enough to speak the language and address itself to the problems peculiar to a particular area and at the same time promote the worldwide task of the church" p 127.

"The command to preach the gospel was not intended for a single age, but for the ages.  The church can live and expand only when world vision is constantly before its eyes and when its minsiters and people are heroic adventurers and brave pioneers, ready to follow their Lord in the dangerous way of the Cross.  A Formal, faint-hearted, self-indulgent churc cannot hope to succeed in the time of such a revolution." p 98.

I wonder what advice and insight Bihop Moore would offer The United Methoidist Church as we gather for General Conference.