Wednesday, May 27, 2015

JOHN

Good Morning! I’m John Branning the Lead Pastor of Central United

Methodist Church. At Central we are for connecting God to People and

People to God. If this is going to happen it means that we have to

intentionally enter into relationships with people who are not followers of

Jesus, yet. This is most uncomfortable to people of faith; and the reason I

believe is that we have bought into the idea of avoiding relationships. We are

told to even fear relationships. Don’t make eye contact at the grocery store,

don’t wave at people on the street, and don’t speak unless we are spoken too.

Jesus told his follower to get involved in the lives of others and especially

those who didn’t know him. The only way to have spiritual influence on

others is to be in relationship. This means you and I will have to get out of

our comfort zone and start connecting God to people. I hope today that you

will find someone new and start a conversation not about the Bible or how

much you love your church but a conversation about the person you’re

talking to. Listen to their story, get to know them, and then let God use your

relationship to connect himself to them. I invite you to Central where we are

for connecting people to God and God to people.