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AMC Connexion Spring20

If you would like some extra reading material as you stay home to save the NHS and to save lives, here is the Connexion magazine. It brings inspiring stories from the life of your Methodist Church and this issue is on the theme of 'letting go'. Editor David Perry says that, "Letting go into God's love is to let go of all that inhibits us from experiencing new life in Christ."

There are article about letting go into trust, letting go from loss, from ego and false self and from complacency. There is an article by two independent celebrants about helping people without a faith commitment to let go. Revd. Dr Jonathan Hustler, Secretary of Conference recognises that letting go can be painful. Finally, a Deacon who is a university chaplain leading a support group for transgender people shares a very personal reflection on the meaning of letting go.

Enjoy your read.

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