Witness on the Plenary Floor
The 2008 General Conference Proclamation
Read by Audrey Krumbach
Written by Reconciling Ministries Witness Team
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The communion table at the center of our worship life has been
shrouded as a reminder that the body is broken. We wear black to
acknowledge that the body is broken. And if you recognize that
brokenness, you are invited to come to the table, to add a black cloth
to the shroud, and to offer your prayer for brokenness of the church.
Rev. David W. Meredith
My name is Melvin Talbert. I am one of your bishops. In this
General Conference we have been reminded that in 1939 this church took
an action that separated my sisters and brothers into a separate
jurisdiction. That action was wrong. That action was a sin against God.
Thank God we have moved through and discontinued that segregated
structure. But my sisters and brothers, here we are again. In the name
of Jesus Christ, we have taken an action that is wrong. At least for
the Central Jurisdiction we remained within a structure and we worked
out the relationships. But for these sisters and brothers we have
chosen to leave them out rather than invite them into work out our
relationships in the name of Christ. I can do no other than to say
what’s on my heart. General Conference, General Conference, This is
wrong. I invite you to reconsider.
Bishop Melvin Talbert
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Blessed be my sisters and brothers whose mournful processional was a moving witness offering truth to a less than faithful church.
Posted by: David Aslesen | May 01, 2008 at 03:14 PM