Rooted & Grounded Together
Ephesians 3: 16 – 19 This week I spent several days with clergy and lay members from across the Baltimore-Washington Conference. Annual Conference is a little bit like a family reunion. Every year I reconnect with the people that I only see once or twice a year. There are colleagues who have become friends. There are pastors whose children I have prayed for from birth to graduations and beyond. There are people who have mentored me over years of ministry and those whom I have mentored. There are people with whom I have shared accountability, mission projects, committee meetings, worship planning, hard conversations, and holy moments. Every year my circle of relationships grows a little wider and deeper. That means more hugs in hallways. More stories over shared meals. More reminders that the Church is bigger than any one congregation. This year, as we gathered, we were grounded in the scripture you heard this morning from Ephesians: ...