Wesleyan Stuff

I grew up in the Wesleyan Church, received my undergraduate education at IWU, and served two Wesleyan churches for the first five years of vocational ministry.  This past week the Wesleyans held their General Conference.    A full report on the conference can be found at:  http://wesleyanstuff.blogspot.com/

 

Keith Drury writes of many significant decisions in the Wesleyan Church; three strike me as profound.  1) The election of JoAnne Lyon as a General Superintendent.  2) Opening up voting at the local church level to community members.  3) Monthly communion as the general practice in worship. 

 

The comments to Drury’s writing give us the impression that Dr. Lyon’s election is the watershed moment.  There are some who will fret about the loosening of membership standards.  My guess is that the most significant change at the local church level will be monthly communion, and the future of the general church too.