I have been reading a biography of Francis Asbury: American Saint. Francis Asbury and the Methodists by John Wigger.
In a letter that Francis Asbury sent to John Wesley in September, 1783, he writes: "No man can make a proper change upon paper, to send one here, and another there without knowing the circuits and the gifts of all the preachers, unless he is always out among them."
For any who are involved in the appointment process in the United Methodist Church, there still is great wisdom here.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Quote from Peter Cartwright (early Methodist Circuit Rider in Illinois)
I ran across this quote by Peter Cartwright today:
"It has often been a question that I shall never be able to answer on earth, whether I have done most good by preaching or distributing religious books. For more than fifty years I have firmly believed that it was a part and parcel of a Methodist preacher's most sacred duty to circulate good books wherever he goes among people."
What is the 21st century equivalent of the practice of circulating good books? Whatever it is, are we engaged in it as diligently as the early Methodist preachers?
"It has often been a question that I shall never be able to answer on earth, whether I have done most good by preaching or distributing religious books. For more than fifty years I have firmly believed that it was a part and parcel of a Methodist preacher's most sacred duty to circulate good books wherever he goes among people."
What is the 21st century equivalent of the practice of circulating good books? Whatever it is, are we engaged in it as diligently as the early Methodist preachers?
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