Wednesday's thoughts

"The Experience of a Lifetime"

Randy Maddox is a professor at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He wrote about Wesley's view of experience and suggested three things about experience that will form the foundation of the sermon this week.

He said;
1. Some experiences are goading. They jar us into reality. The are surprising and start. They get our attention.

2. Some experiences are guiding. They help form us and give us direction in our lives. We are changed by them and we are never the same after having had them.

3. Some experiences are goal producing. They invite us to look beyond the present and the here and now to see the future and to mold the future in ways we would never have seen it before.

Can you name some of the experiences in your life that are goads, guides, and goals?

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I look forward to hearing from you.


Charles Schuster