Clever Free Methodist

In our Church, I wonder how many people take the time to look on the back of the Worship Bulletin each Sunday to read the short story presented there. One recent bulletin had an interesting article entitled “Fable of the Porcupine.” I would like to share this article that was attributed to an Anonymous author. Here it is : “It was the coldest winter ever. Many animals died because of the cold. The porcupines, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves.” But the quills of each one wounded their closest companions. After a while, they decided to distance themselves one from the other and they began to die, alone and frozen. So they had to make a choice: Either accept the quills of their companions or disappear from the earth. Wisely they decided to go back to being together. They learned to live with the little wounds caused by the close relationship with their companions in order to receive the warmth that came f

  Our country and even our churches are being challenged by the friction emanating from various strong emotions that are splintering us into factions and dismantling us into taking sides. The trends over the last year with the Coronavirus, isolation, masking, social distancing, election fraud theories, and events surrounding the US Presidency have us on edge, fearful, angry and confused. Who can we trust? Who can we believe? What should we do? The best place to start to answer those questions is to remember, Romans 12:1 , “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.” First , we must get our heads out of the world and stop conforming our beliefs, thoughts and perspectives on progressive world views. The world has an agenda and it will never include God and will always lead us astray. We must stop following. We must stop listening to that message. Secondly , we must place our faith and trust squarely