In other words, he wanted colleges to think about what their survival would actually contribute to higher education. In a similar vein, I wonder about our significant survival. No doubt we can prolong our life for a long time or, at least, until the Jurisdictional Conference intervenes once again. They have proceeded from the question of what it is that God is calling us to be and to do in the next millennium. If we can answer that, then the question of survival will be moot.
Small numbers can accomplish mighty ends.
It is not how many we are, but what we do with what we have. My whole life, from the day of my baptism until this one, has been bound to the Wyoming Annual Conference. It would be a great grief to me to have the conference end as a conference. However, I would be hard pressed to argue that we should survive for survival's sake. I would give my all, however, if that survival could be seen to be significant for Christ's sake.