Revd Graham Thompson, President of the Methodist Conference preached at our Healing & Holy Communion service at the start of the new Methodist year. 'The People Were Amazed’

Hear this this morning: However you are feeling, you belong to God, and you are precious to him.

Revd Paul Wood ‘If it’s of God ... just do it!’ Luke 13:10-17 by Methodist Central Hall, Westminster

‘Our job as Christians, is to be consistent in our devotion to Jesus, faithful in our wise witness and prayer, prepared for persecution, and to bear with separation if it comes.’

‘Let us be ‘The Prepared People’, because what we are waiting for is far more important than a delivery from, Amazon, eBay, a letter from the home office, a doctor or the Monarch.  We are waiting for a knock from the king of kings the Lord of lords’

Alison Bryan ‘Peace in the knowing’ by Methodist Central Hall, Westminster

God delights in hearing and answering our prayers.

What are the things that we treasure? The things that we hold onto tightly? There is nothing wrong with valuing precious things in this world, like I do with Katie and this watch… the important things is that we have our priorities in line and recognise the worth they hold, and the limit of that worth.

‘Let us renew our commitment to ‘wait on God’… to be attentive to the presence of Christ in our midst. To prioritise our willingness to learn from Jesus and live out his calling on our lives as disciples.’

In this parable, Jesus erased the BOUNDARIES of exclusion. It is a message of togetherness, there are no Jew, gentiles, black or white. In Christ, you are my brother, you are my sister. So, take me by the hand.