Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long
as ever you can.
John Wesley
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Lent – a good time to give something up. Rich food, for instance. (Remember? Use up the fat in the cupboard for some Shrove Tuesday pancakes, then resist the temptation of all those supermarket eggs until Easter Day.)
It sounds like a good idea – if you’re going on a diet. But if, as we’re told, the 40 days of Lent echo the 40 days Jesus spent in the wilderness, testing his self-discipline and preparing himself for ministry, then surely Lent is about the opposite of ‘giving up’.
Lent has to be about preparing to do something important; focussing on action. As the spring days lengthen, we will receive more daylight hours with which to make God’s kingdom more visible in a world going round in circles… in more ways than one.
Lent – a time not only to reflect on what we’ve done wrong but also on what we can do right. This full, online edition of Momentum offers a host of ways of taking that idea forward, from making Pancake Day a fundraiser for MRDF to becoming a crime-busting angel in your local town centre. ‘Prepare for action’ as a General Election approaches or through worship (LWPT Advocate Myrtle Poxon has some suggestions) and, in the words of the profoundly important Methodist study on climate change, show that Christians have hope in God’s future.
Laurence Wareing (Editor) for the Momentum Editorial Group
Email: editor.momentum@methodistchutch.org.uk
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