In his sermon for the Sunday morning worship service of the 2019 General Conference, Kenneth H. Carter, Jr., President of the Council of Bishops, reminded the General Conference delegates, “You are here because your people respect you.” He called the members of the denomination’s worldwide assembly to “watch and listen…and pray for the gift of the Holy Spirit, to make us one with Christ, one with each other, and one in ministry to all the world.”

Carter noted, “Where you see the mission of God, you will see people connected to each other…[even if] we come to St. Louis pretty equally divided.” He asked the delegates, “Could it be that Jesus has already broken down the dividing wall of hostility that is between us and made peace?”

He concluded by saying, “What God has promised [God] is able to perform. God is able!”