The United Church will be celebrating its 85th anniversary on June 10th, and plans are afoot for this historic event. What should we do about it? Should we pray for a leadership committed to our denomination’s founding document: The Basis of Union of 1925? Or should we emphasize our denomination’s rapid decline after 1988 under the leadership of the last eight Moderators? There are many – and the Community of Concern has always been among them – who are calling for the United Church once again to be “a Christ-centered, healthy, growing family of believers who proclaim the Good News that Jesus Christ is Lord, both in word and in deed.”
On June 10th we stand once again at a great crossroads. Let us pray that our Church’s leaders will be led by the Holy Spirit.