Will Willamon

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  Will Willamon told a story of a man who lived with his family close to a church.His yard was a disaster.The children seemed poorly cared for.Rumors were that he got drunk on Saturdays and terrified his wife and kids.

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  Will Willamon, who is now a United Methodist bishop, used to be at Duke and had a wonderful ministry there.He tells the story of meeting a medical student working on his M.D. and his PhD at the same time.Willamon was quite impressed with this student's depth of self-awareness.So he asked the student about what helped him the most in practicing his profession in medicine without being captured or crushed by it.The student's answer was, "I'm just so glad to be a Lutheran."
  
  Willamon asked, "What does that have to do with it?"

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  Will Willamon, who is now a Bishop of one of the conferences on the other side of the continent tells a story about the first church he pastored.He was brave enough or naive enough to ask the congregation what they thought of his sermons.
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  Note: Thanks to Will Willamon for the illustrations.

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  William Willomon told a story from his days as dean of the chapel at Duke University.He told of a girl who went to college wanting friends, craving to fit in.She soon found out that fitting in carries a high price tag.Subtle pressures to do this, not to care for that, to cross that line, becme apparent.After a year or so of going with the flow, passively following other's lead, she began to make some changes in her life.The transformation began as she started thinking more about what she wanted for her life, and she began to get back in touch with Christ on a daily basis.

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  Author Will Willamon will help the group take an unflinching look at and talk about the meaning and substance of sin.

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  Will Willamon (who for many years was a Dean at Duke Divinity School and is now a United Methodist Bishop of the Alabama Conference) paraphrased Jesus' sermon this way:
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  (4) William H. Willamon, "Get Real," Pulpit Resource, vol.32, No. 1, p. 31.

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  Note: Thanks to Will Willamon for his thoughts on baptism.

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  Will Willamon told a story about an evangelist who visited Drew where he was the chaplain for many years.This evangelist was in fine form preaching a sermon very enthusiastically about heaven and hell.He came to the climax of the sermon where he leaned over the pulpit and asked, "And where will you spend eternity?"
  
  At that point Will Willamon heard one student leaned over and whisper to his neighbor, "The way things are going, in German 101."

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  : Will Willamon is the Methodist bishop of Alabama.He is a spendidly wonderful speaker who brings r , more ,

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  Will Willoman, Dean at Duke University, tells the story of a man at the school we'll call Chris.One day Chris came to visit Willoman and told him a story.Basically Chris had been a bad boy, and an even worse teenager, so bad, in fact, that he had had been sent to a camp for delinquent teens.So bad, in fact, that he broke out of the camp and escaped to the city.There he became a male prostitute and one night he rolled a business man and stole his American Express card.
  
  Chris was caught and sentenced to hard time at the Joilet Prison.We could say that he was as good as dead.But life is stronger than death, and something happened at the prison that was unexpected.Chris was taken under the protection of an older prisoner.Every night before lock down this older man would read to the younger man a chapter of Luke's gospel.It took a long time, because the old man didn't read well, but one night they finally came to the story of the Prodigal Son.Chris told Willoman that that Jesus "body slammed" him with that story.In fact, Chris claims that he heard Jesus speak directly to him, and what Jesus said was this: "You owe me, I've got plans for you."and with that Chris was saved.He served his time, got off for good behavior, earned his G.E.D., and now was a student at Duke University.As Chris finished his story he looked Willoman in the eye and said, "I'm the only proof of the resurrection you've got."

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