{"id":9387,"date":"2022-11-18T16:31:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T22:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twkumc.org\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T15:23:46","slug":"staying-in-the-umc-john-wesley-vaughn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twkumc.org\/es\/news\/staying-in-the-umc-john-wesley-vaughn\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanecer en la UMC | John Wesley Vaughn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Por qu\u00e9 seguir\u00e9 siendo Metodista Unido:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qu\u00e9 pregunta tan extra\u00f1a: \u00bfseguir\u00e9 siendo metodista unido?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Durante generaciones, mi familia fue miembro de la Iglesia Episcopal del Sur de Indian Mound, que luego se convirti\u00f3 en la Iglesia Metodista en 1939.  En 1968 la iglesia se convirti\u00f3 en Metodista Unida y yo he permanecido como Metodista Unida hasta el presente y permanecer\u00e9 as\u00ed hasta mi llamado a la gloria.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Relato esta parte de mis or\u00edgenes eclesiales para afirmar desde el principio que ahora soy Metodista Unida y seguir\u00e9 si\u00e9ndolo porque personas comunes, cari\u00f1osas y fieles de la Iglesia Metodista Unida Indian Mound me hicieron Metodista Unida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0No eleg\u00ed ser metodista unido, como tampoco eleg\u00ed ser John Wesley Vaughan.  \u00bfSer\u00eda m\u00e1s capaz de responder a la pregunta anterior si pudiera decirles que me convert\u00ed en metodista unido s\u00f3lo despu\u00e9s de a\u00f1os de torturada reflexi\u00f3n, horas pasadas en angustiosa oraci\u00f3n y profundo estudio?  No puedo.  Soy Metodista Unida porque fui puesta aqu\u00ed por generaciones de Vaughan y alimentada por innumerables personas leales y cari\u00f1osas en la Iglesia Metodista Unida Indian Mound.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Muchas personas se esfuerzan por vivir la vida y afirman ser individuos hechos a s\u00ed mismos, personas que son quienes son en funci\u00f3n de las decisiones que han tomado en la vida.  Sin embargo, yo dir\u00eda que la religi\u00f3n nunca es realmente tuya, a menos que la hayas encontrado por ti mismo, sin ayuda de nadie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Yo no eleg\u00ed muchos de los aspectos m\u00e1s importantes de mi vida.  No eleg\u00ed mi aspecto, ni mi nombre, ni mi familia, ni mi tradici\u00f3n: todo eso lo eligieron otros.  Esto significa que muchas de las cosas realmente importantes de mi vida han venido como regalos.  Otra palabra muy importante para regalo es \"gracia\".  Para m\u00ed, esto significa que, como Metodistas Unidos, somos lo que somos gracias a la gracia y no a nuestros logros o elecciones individualistas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As\u00ed pues, si hoy me considero creyente, si respondo al nombre de cristiano, es principalmente gracias a personas como Elizabeth Grasty, Una Vaughan, Jewell Vaughan, Ora Moore, A.C. Moore y el resto de personas dedicadas de la Iglesia Metodista Unida de Indian Mound que me contaron su historia y vivieron el Evangelio ante m\u00ed en un lugar llamado Iglesia Metodista Unida de Indian Mound de una manera que me hizo saber que esa era mi historia, mi nombre, mi salvaci\u00f3n.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00bfPor qu\u00e9 seguir\u00e9 siendo metodista unido?  Seguir\u00e9 siendo metodista unido por un don, \u00a1por la gracia!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Para m\u00ed, la gracia significa que se me han dado dones, y los dones recibidos significan deuda.  Estoy, pues, en deuda con personas cuyos nombres me cuesta recordar, en una peque\u00f1a comunidad del condado de Stewart, Tennessee, y con aquellos fieles que me han escuchado a lo largo de los a\u00f1os mientras intentaba compartir con ellos la gracia en las congregaciones a las que he sido destinado.  Porque, como ven, todo se trata de la gracia, \u00a1una gracia asombrosa!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I will stay United Methodist: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What a bizarre question to consider: will I remain United Methodist?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My family for generations were members of Indian Mound Episcopal Church South which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications-news","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Staying in the UMC | John Wesley Vaughn - TWKUMC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/twkumc.org\/es\/news\/staying-in-the-umc-john-wesley-vaughn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Staying in the UMC | John Wesley Vaughn - 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