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Connections |
A monthly letter calling the church to faithful new life
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Connections is a 4-page
monthly letter written and published by
Barbara Wendland,
a United Methodist laywoman.
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Barbara is urging church members
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to focus on today and tomorrow, not on yesterday
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to notice how their personal lives, their churches, and
their world differ from what
Jesus advocated
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to take initiative and action to help make their personal lives,
the institutional church, and the world more like what Jesus described
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to worship God, not their personal comfort, the Bible's words, or
the institutional church
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to keep reevaluating their religious beliefs, their churches' faithfulness to God's call, and their churches' effectiveness in carrying out the church's God-given purpose
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to talk openly in the church about what they believe, how
the gospel applies to current issues, and how the church might become more faithful and
effective
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to revise their beliefs and their churches' methods when new
insight or information reveals the need to do so.
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Do you feel like a misfit in the church, as a
thinking,
questioning person? Are you "spiritually homeless"? You're not alone! See these issues of
Connections— Feb.
2002, April 2002, June
2002, Aug. 2005, Sept.
2005, Dec. 2005, Oct.
2006, Jan. 2008, and Sept.
2008.
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Barbara mails Connections monthly
by U.S. mail and e-mail, to several thousand Christian laity
and clergy and some non-churchgoers. These Connections readers are in all 50 U.S. states and D.C.
and Puerto Rico, and in several other countries. They include members of more than a
dozen church denominations.
To read or download the current issue or back issues of Connections,
click here.
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She's neither a church employee nor a clergy spouse, so she's free to say
openly what they usually aren't.
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She has a theology degree, years of personal reading and study about
religion and the church, and wide involvement in the church, helping her to see
and say what many lay church members can't.
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She takes on one sacred cow after another.
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She's saying what many other laity and many clergy would like to say.
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She says it clearly in conversational language.
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Lay and ordained Connections readers say,
"Connections is inspiring, positive, challenging, insightful, informative,
clear, concise, useful, fresh, and easy to read."
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