It is not a Secret.....take back the church!

I have always been influenced by John Wesley and my understanding of the Gospel of the Warm Heart.

http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2001/05/daily-05-24-2001.shtml

Wesley believed we are all perfect and at one with the Divine. There is nothing to do, but come to that awareness. The world is full of promise, but one must to the personal work to fulfill one's own potential.

The joy of this knowledge was enough, said Wesley, to foment great community work. The obstacles in life and the shit we endure is the process of growth and "sanctification." We grow in greater knowledge and certainty of the love that binds all of creation including ourselves. We are being perfected.

Wesley was known for his activism. He set up drug dispensaries for the poor of Britain and had his society members take blankets into the French prisoners held after one of Britian's wars. This was done because the authorities would not give blankets to the cold prisoners.

Wesley told the wealthy that the poor were perhaps more welcome to the gifts of earth and heaven than those in the upper classes. One Lady said, Wesley was a horrid man for insisting that her chamber maid was equal to her! One can only imagine what Wesley would be saying to George W. Bush and the privileged goverment class in the U.S. and around the world.

Are there others in the Vancouver area willing to form a Methodist society to take back the church? The "Free Methodists" have already moved in to Canada from the United States and you can bet it does not resemble the canadian understanding of John Wesley's mission.

http://www.fmc-canada.org/

THe United Church of Canada is closer to the Canadian methodist understanding of mission and activism. The United Church supports same sex marriage and confidnetly ordains all persons so called to ministry in the church. Beware of imports form the United States!!!

be well, be Gay, be non-Gay, be happy becuase you are worth it!

the faerieshaman