<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
GOD’S STORY IN<br />
WEST MICHIGAN<br />
Jim Maness stirred by answered prayer<br />
STANDING AGAINST<br />
THE EBOLA STORM<br />
Wesleyanlifeonline.com / FALL 2014<br />
FEATURED<br />
N.T. WRIGHT’S<br />
REAL JESUS<br />
Arguments about God are like<br />
pointing a f lashlight toward the<br />
sky to see if the sun is shining.<br />
GOD IS UP TO<br />
SOMETHING IN<br />
WEST MICHIGAN.<br />
Many churches of the West<br />
Michigan District have become<br />
increasingly missional in recent<br />
years. District Superintendent<br />
Chris Conrad has spent his life as<br />
a champion of the values that are<br />
at the foundation of churches like<br />
these. In these examples, unique<br />
ministry opportunities have<br />
followed faithful prayer in often<br />
surprising ways.<br />
West<br />
Michigan<br />
RESPONDING TO<br />
GOD’S GRACE<br />
By Kerry Kind<br />
01: COURAGEOUS INNOVATION<br />
IN ALLENDALE<br <a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 1" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=1"> ON THE COVER GOD’S STORY IN WEST MICHIGAN Jim Man</a>
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<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 3" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=3"> Indeed, there was an almost miraculous re</a>
<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 4" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=4"> Vision Never Been It was the end </a>
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<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 9" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=9"> A new generation of church leaders can’t get enou</a>
<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 10" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=10"> and are concerned for their skeptically-inclined </a>
<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 11" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=11"> the traditions of the church, whether Protestant,</a>
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<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 16" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=16"> 04 04: NEW BEGINNINGS AND HOPE FOR IONIA </a>
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<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 18" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=18"> the lord Still Meets Us COMPILED BY RON MCCLUNG</a>
<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 19" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=19"> god is in charge of the marrow BRADY STEPHENS Whe</a>
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<a title="Wesleyan Life Fall 2014 page 25" href="http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/b0fcc039?page=25"> As I sat with Jackie, contemplating new wa</a>
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