Strangely Familiar--The Fall: Genesis 3:8-15
Third Sunday of Ordinary Time Picture this: three and a half days of sitting with a laptop on a Zoom webinar with 1,000 other people around the state of Michigan worshipping, arguing, asking, clarifying, calling for final votes, and wondering what on Earth is on the bishop’s tie today. Welcome to virtual Annual Conference. To those just joining us it may seem like you picked the one day of purely internal business but this is part of who we are. We United Methodists are a connectional church, so when you get St. Luke’s you also get Michigan, and you get the Northcentral Jurisdiction, and you get The United Methodist Church as a global body. We lean into each other, tapping the deep roots of shared mission and resources that crisscross the world. It can be really, really cool. And, it can be pretty awful. Because organizations need, well, organization, every year we hold the Annual Conference—which, for us, is the geographical state of Michigan. F