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Looking Forward to General Assembly

General Assembly is coming up at the end of July. Yunkyong, Emily, and I are going. We are looking forward to being back in Indianapolis. We are especially looking forward to seeing old friends again.

The big question of General Assembly revolves around the entire "Sense-of-the-Assembly" resolutions. How as a church do we speak with authority on moral issues important to us? How do we respond to war? How do we respond to inequality, hunger, and poverty? Do we not address them? Do we just talk about them? Or do we act?

I'll be clear that I am not decided.

I do think in the time that we live in, a church speaking with authority on anything is kind of a funny idea. Maybe among some in my generation, we see too many churches already attempt to speak with authority, often resulting in plain ol' hypocrisy. I think action would be a more appropriate response to moral issues, but I suppose some of us don't know about our challenges until we talk about them or raise them up. And we do need space to figure out our best course of action, how we are called to respond. So does the current process allow that? Would getting rid of it allow something else to take its place? Or what?

We'll find out.