General Assembly Council should be all about Jesus
By Paula R. Kincaid, The Layman Online, September 30, 2001
TEMPE, Ariz. – Jeff Bridgeman, chair of the General Assembly Council, shared his convictions with the council at its recent meeting.
“If we are not about Jesus Christ,” he said, “then we are wasting our time and spinning our wheels.”
“We are all about Christ. Our plenary sessions are all about Christ. Our division meetings are all about Christ,” he said.
Bridgeman continued that if the council was not about Christ, then “we are pushing a stone up a hill that will only roll back down again. It is futile and we all have better things to do. We need to be on our knees in prayer … We need to bathe this work in prayer.”
His second conviction was that “we are to make a difference in the world around us.”
He asked the council how they will respond to the “boiling waters around us.” Will they become hardened, or soft, or “Will we make something new as Christ has made something new of us.”
He ended his talk by reading a prayer he received from the Korean Young Adult Coalition.
“God has blessed us. Let us be good stewards of the blessing we have received,” he said.