Wayne Schmidt's Wesleyan Ordination Succession
When Wesleyan General Superintendent, Wayne Schmidt, officiates ordination services, he is continuing a long, historic line of ministerial calling/leadership as the mantle is passed to the next generation. Wayne Schmidt was ordained by O. D. Emery (Wesleyan Church) O. D. Emery ordained by Louis Willard Sturk (Pilgrim Holiness). Louis Willard (L. W.) Sturk ordained by George B. Kulp (Pilgrim Holiness) George Kulp was ordained by Stephen Merrill (Methodist Episcopal) Stephen Merrill was ordained by Thomas Asbury Morris (Methodist Episcopal) Thomas Asbury Morris was ordained by Robert Richford Roberts (Methodist Episcopal) Robert Richford Roberts was ordained by the renowned circuit riding evangelist, Francis Asbury (Methodist) Francis Asbury was ordained by Thomas Coke (Methodist) Thomas Coke was ordained by a renegade priest named John Wesley (Anglican) John Wesley was ordained by John Potter, Bishop of Oxford (Anglican). From Potter -- there's a trail all the way back...
What a great question. Can God still heal instantaneously? Of course He can. If it's not happening in people's lives, who's fault is that?
ReplyDeleteCould it be because we don't preach the Gospel and the new life that it brings and could it be because we don't give altar calls in our services.
Or, could it be that we just don't have faith that He can or will?
Or could it be that so many have been turned off by churches that preach the gospel but do not live it.
ReplyDeleteWe always seem to conveniently forget that the "Church" is us. "We have met the enemy and he is us," Charlie Brown.
ReplyDeleteIf churches are turning people off then whose fault is that? Steve U.