This past week, Lovers Lane played host to the Uniting Methodists Conference, a gathering of those in support of (or seeking to learn more about) the One Church Plan (OCP) as we approach what will hopefully be a historic General Conference in February 2019. Certainly there will be many reactions posted by those of all theological persuasions, but I wanted to take a moment to offer an insight that became apparent to me in the last few days. During the conference, we offered the ability for attendees, both in-person and online, to submit questions for our leaders to address at the conference. I was one of the persons privy to those questions, and I found them to be enlightening. The largest number of questions had to deal with the technical implementation of the OCP, as it was finally released to the public on Tuesday late-afternoon. But next to the "nuts-and-bolts" questions, the second-most type of questions had to do with a common theme. I would summarize them as ess
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