By David Thomas When all the dust has settled, it’s hard to predict all the details of what form our new connection will take. But this we know for certain: what our moment requires is not just a better Methodism. Long ago we left behind the times when denominational improvements...
By David Watson It’s common today to hear people talk about the “secular West.” “Secular,” however, may not be the best term to describe our culture. We in the West tend to be religious people, though less frequently Christian than has been the case in the past. Apart from the...
June: The Way to Wisdom By Dr. Stephen Seamands “Select from among yourselves seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit and of wisdom” (Acts 6.3 italics mine). Faced with growing dissension within their ranks, that was the Apostles solution for the growing food distribution problem in the Jerusalem church....
May: The Way to Holy Love By Kevin M. Watson In his scholarship, Kenneth J. Collins has summarized John Wesley’s theology as “holy love.” This is seen with particular clarity in his book The Theology of John Wesley: Holy Love and the Shape of Grace (Abingdon, 2007). A cursory reading...
Once again this year, The Fount will play host to the live stream simulcast of the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s 2022 Global Gathering on Saturday, May 7th. The event will happen in Indianapolis, but you don’t have to travel to experience the speakers, worship, and information! Just come to The Fount...
Continuing in our prayer, in unison with the Wesleyan Covenant Association world-wide, here is the April Prayer Guide. April: The Way of Peace By Kimberly D. Reisman Our world is not a peaceful place. On the contrary, it is filled with danger and strife, violence and pain. Jesus understood...
Last week, the Commission on General Conference announced that the twice-postponed General Conference will once again be “postponed” until 2024. The Protocol for Separation, our best hope for a peaceful separation, will now have to wait until then. But there are other options. With the further postponement of General Conference...
As 2022 moves on, be praying for the Commission on General Conference, that they will decide to go ahead with General Conference this summer, as planned, and that it won’t be postponed yet again! As a way to be praying, we are sharing the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s Prayer Guide each...
The Cal-Pac Chapter of the Wesleyan Covenant Association invites The Fount family to join a Zoom meeting this Saturday, October 9th, at 10:30 AM (PDT) to hear a presentation by Jay Therrell, the Florida Chapter president, who was forced to surrender his clergy credentials in the Florida Annual Conference of the...
The Wesleyan Covenant Association’s 5th annual global gathering, “Go Global”, will occur this Saturday, May 1st. The Fount is a simulcast site for the event, which means you can attend the event here at The Fount, starting at 9:00 AM Saturday morning in the Sanctuary. The actual event is being...