Methodist Confirmation Quotes

The Cedar Man also began looking familiar, and I recognized him as Willis Weist, who had disappointed my mother; she had observed him going to as many as four white-person church services each Sunday. A confirmed Methodist, she’d finally asked him which one he liked the best, to which he had responded, “Pentecostal.” My heartbroken mother asked why. He’d shrugged, “Because they have the best potluck dinners.” There

Gitlow’s words jarred every member of Congress in that hearing room. He confirmed the worst fears and suspicions: the Rev. Harry Ward and his cell of Marxist-socialist clergymen had sought nothing less than to convert the Methodist Church and Christianity as a whole into an instrument for socialist victory.

We have made an assumption that faith development occurs in the church. What we have learned is that real faith development begins at home and in our personal relationships with each other. Even as a United Methodist pastor, I (Bob) left the faith development of my children to the church, thinking that the church would take care of it and believing by my setting the example of going to church that they would get it. This is the assumption that parents in most mainline churches make and that my parents made. We thought we had it covered by taking our kids to youth group, Sunday school, VBS, and confirmation. Yet, when they graduated and went on with their lives, we realized that all we had given them was church. We didn’t help them develop a personal experience/relationship in Jesus Christ.