Dear Friends<\/p>\n
In the last three issues of The Link we have been exploring the theme of the President and Vice-President of Conference for this Connexional year – \u2018Day by Day \u2013 exploring the rhythm of mission and discipleship\u2019. So far, we have considered \u2018Pray<\/strong>\u2019, \u2018Read<\/strong> and Reflect<\/strong>\u2019 and \u2018Give thanks<\/strong>\u2019.<\/p>\n In this issue, we look at \u2018Act\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n What do we understand about this word? Below are some suggestions, with the help of a dictionary and a Bible\u2026..<\/p>\n The process of doing or performing something, such as the act of thinking about things:<\/p>\n Grouped under the Methodist Church\u2019s \u2018Our Calling\u2019 statements, there are a number of things we would like to do in our revised Church Action Plan, our vision for mission in this Church. You may have seen this on the Church Noticeboard.<\/p>\n We have to move from thinking about them to doing something for a particular purpose:<\/p>\n We have already begun to do some of the things that we said we would do, and it\u2019s down to each and every one of us to take God\u2019s Word to others and help in the mission of the Church. I wonder if you have thought of any ways in which you would be able to \u2018Act\u2019?<\/p>\n To act in a stated way (acting like..) \u2013 here is a biblical example:<\/p>\n Luke 6:46-48<\/strong> New Revised Standard Version to have an effect\u2026 (to make a difference)<\/p>\n 1 John 3:17-19<\/strong> NRSV to act, to get something done \u2013 something that you do:<\/p>\n 2 Corinthians 3:12<\/strong> NRSV or Act, a specialised law \u2013 the Ten Commandments??<\/strong> Exodus 20: 1-17.<\/p>\n Of course, we have the examples of the Apostles in the Book of Acts.<\/p>\n The Connexional booklet quotes Matthew 25: 37-40 and also the hymn \u201cwhen I needed a neighbour\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n So, I pray that we have plenty to think about here, in the life of the church and in our individual lives.<\/p>\n May we go through these next two months thinking about our actions \u2013 what we do, what we may do, and what God is asking us to do \u2013 and Act!<\/p>\n God bless, The booklet \u2018Day by day\u2019 is available from The Methodist Church (www.mph.org.uk or 0845 07 8220) and can be downloaded from the Methodist Church website Methodist.org.uk (see \u2018Prayer and Worship\u2019 tab, then \u2018Day by Day\u2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Friends In the last three issues of The Link we have been exploring the theme of the President and Vice-President of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-06 21:37:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starbeckmethodistchurch.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n46 \u201cWhy do you call me \u2018Lord, Lord,\u2019 and do not do what I tell you? 47 I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, hears my words, and acts on them.<\/strong><\/em> 48 That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when a flood arose, the river burst against that house but could not shake it, because it had been well built.[a]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n17 How does God\u2019s love abide in anyone who has the world\u2019s goods and sees a brother or sister[a] in need and yet refuses help?
\n18 Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.<\/strong><\/em> 19 And by this we will know that we are from the truth and will reassure our hearts before him<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n12 Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness<\/strong><\/em>,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nAnn<\/strong><\/p>\n
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