If I asked you, “What is your plan for increasing your capacity to give and receive love,” how would you answer? If love is the greatest, if love is what God wants more than anything else, and if the world needs more love—what is your workout plan to make it happen? What is your strategic plan to increase love in your life and church?
If my capacity for giving and receiving love is to increase, I have to regularly drink from the fountain of the love of God. Remember the passage that says, “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19)? That teaches that I am never going to increase my love capacity until I increase my capacity to receive love from God.
--Bill Hybels, Bold Love
About Me
- Ed Wilder
- I am a United Methodist minister retired from serving churches. I began serving my first church in September of 1973 in the West Ohio Conference. Since then, I have served 12 churches in 3 states, 4 Annual Conferences and as a United Methodist I have also had the opportunity to be interim pastor of 2 non-Methodist congregations. I have also worked as a counselor, spiritual director, hospital chaplain, campus minister, and publisher of a spiritual formation newsletter. I have been active in leading spiritual retreats including, The Walk to Emmaus since 1983 and Chrysalis since 1991. I have 2 grown sons. Formal education includes: B.S. in Psychology, Purdue University 1967; M.Div. United Theological Seminary 1975; Certificate in Spiritual Formation, Perkins School of Theology 1985; M.A. program in Pastoral Counseling and Spiritual Direction, Fordham University 1989. After 30 years in Texas I have moved back home to Dayton Ohio. Since May of 2007 I have been on staff of the Pohly Center for Supervision and Leadership Formation at United Theological Seminary (Methodist). My work is integrating leadership growth and faith growth.
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