Word on the Street

April 26, 2012

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church started this week in Tampa, Florida. General Conference meets every four years and is the official decision making body for the United Methodist Church. It is the only body that speaks officially for United Methodism and it produces our Book of Discipline and Book of Resolutions. You can keep up with the proceedings of General Conference through the website www.umc.org.

Often we place great hope in gatherings or events such as these. In much the same way we get fired up during a Presidential election year. These are indeed important matters, however I find much more often that it is the little things we do faithfully every day that make the biggest difference in the long run.

Dave Travis of Leadership Network here in Dallas sums it up this way:
"Virtue shows up in a million tiny decisions. What sank the Titanic? The iceberg didn't do it. No big gash in the hull. Rather, the failure of the rivets created thousands of little slits that let the water in.

It's not the iceberg sins that get to us, it's the rivet slits that rush in and give us the sinking feeling."

I pray God will bless the actions, decisions and elections of our General Conference and our Country, however I believe real change occurs when we do the faithful things over and over again. Our Children's Minister Kristen Lane has a great sign on her desk. It says:
"Friendship is not a BIG thing. It's a million little things".

How are you doing with the little things this week?