I could not find a YouTube clip of this scene from Steve Martin’s The Jerk, but this is how I feel today because my new copy of the United Methodist Book of Discipline 2008 arrived today.
Yes, I’m that big a Methonerd.
Time to start reading it side-by-side with my 2004 edition so I can spot all the crucial differences inserted by the wise and all-powerful General Conference.
I am a part-time local pastor serving Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church and a participant in the Indiana Conference's Wesleyan ConneXion. I teach business communication at Indiana University in the Kelley School of Business.
I also blog at Luc means light and contribute to The View from Here blog at Next Step Evangelism.
My wife, Lisa, and I have been married 23.5 years. Luc, 8, lives with us. Zach, 22, and JillAnn, 18, are off at college much too soon for my liking.
Contact me at johnmeunier at Gmail.
The doctrine of original sin is surely more humbling to man than the opposite: And I know not what honour we can pay to God, if we think man came out of His hands in the condition wherein he is now.
— John Wesley
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John:
It obviously does not take much to keep you happy. How will you respond when you get your updated version of the Resolutions?
Oh, don’t tease me, Allan. I can only handle so much joy at one time.