Church, Take a Breath
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of Your love. Send forth Your Spirit, and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth. Amen.
This prayer recently has been on my mind as pastors and congregations celebrated Pentecost, the Church’s birthday. Often we come to Pentecost, forgetting the context out of which the Holy Spirit came.
The scriptural accounts of the days that followed Easter found in Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John , and Acts 1 tell of the day period Jesus spent instructing and preparing the disciples for their future. After those 40 days, Jesus ascended into heaven and 10 days later the Holy Spirit descended upon the disciples as recorded in Acts 2. Liturgically, the Church remembers this time of Jesus’ resurrection, further teaching, ascension, and the coming of the Spirit during the days of Eastertide which concludes on the Day of Pentecost.
On Pentecost, the wind of the Spirit swept acr
Bishop McAlilly: Living with courage and boldness
By: Christa Meland
“Do you know your why? What story do you live by?”
Bishop William (Bill) McAlilly of the Nashville Episcopal Area posed those questions to Minnesota United Methodists at the Annual Conference Session, which took place May June 1 in St. Cloud.
“To live your why as a Christian is an act of discipleship,” he said in his connectional address, which focused on embodying our United Methodist way with courage and boldness. (Watch or download full address.)
He pointed out that Jesus’ why comes from Luke 4: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Meanwhile, John Wesley’s why was rooted in Matthew “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’”
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William T. (Bill) McAlilly
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William T. (Bill) McAlilly is the bishop of the Nashville Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church. The Area includes the Memphis and Tennessee Conferences that cover middle and west Tennessee and western Kentucky. He was elected to the episcopacy at the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference in and was assigned as the resident bishop of the Memphis and Tennessee Annual Conferences beginning September 1, The Tennessee-Western Kentucky Annual Conference was founded on January 1,
A native of Mississippi, Bishop McAlilly earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS () and a Masters of Divinity, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA ().
He was ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church in and ordained elder in In the spring of , Bishop McAlilly received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Rust College in Holly Springs, MS.
McAlilly has served in a wide variety of ministry settings in Georgia and Mississippi–a small membership church, a new congregation,
Bill McAlilly
William T. (Bill) McAlilly was elected to the episcopacy at the Southeastern Jurisdictional Conference in He retired on September 1,
His assignments included resident bishop of the Memphis and Tennessee Annual Conferences beginning September 1, Later, he was the bishop of the Nashville Episcopal Area of the United Methodist Church that included the Memphis and Tennessee Conferences that covered middle and west Tennessee and western Kentucky.
A native of Mississippi, Bishop McAlilly earned a Bachelor of Arts in Religion, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS () and a Masters of Divinity, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA ().
He was ordained deacon in the United Methodist Church in and ordained elder in In the spring of , Bishop McAlilly received an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Rust College in Holly Springs, MS.
McAlilly has served in a wide variety of ministry settings in Georgia and Mississippi–a small membership church, a new congregation, a county seat church, a newly organized congregation, and a large membership congregation. Likewise, he has served in a variety of r
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