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Author | : Bishop Scott J. Jones |
Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2010-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1426730098 |
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This book offers a renewed vision and practical steps for United Methodists to work together in mission and ministry. These bishops of The United Methodist Church urge congregations to stand together, under God’s grace, to lead others to vibrant faith, steadfast hope, and joyful living. The authors call for a new partnership with God to bring God’s reign to fruition for all God’s people. With concrete guidance about how to create and transform disciples, readers are invited to travel the path that leads to the abundant living that Jesus talked about. This book will also inspire and motivate congregations to work together to be a vibrant presence in their neighborhoods and communities. The Seven Pathways were created by the United Methodist bishops and presented at the 2008 General Conference as a vision statement for the Church. Contributors include: Bishops Sharon Brown Christopher, Gregory Vaughn Palmer, G. Lindsey Davis, Robert Schnase, Scott J. Jones, Hee-Soo Jung, E. James Swanson Sr., Minerva G. Carcano, Thomas J. Bickerton, and Bruce R. Ough. The seven pathways are: Planting New Congregations, Transforming Existing Congregations, Teaching the United Methodist Way, Strengthing Clergy and Lay Leadership, Children and Poverty, Expanding Racial/Ethnic Ministries, and Eliminating Poverty by Stamping out Disease.
Author | : United Methodist Church (U.S.). Board of Discipleship |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Religious education of young people |
ISBN | : |
Download Proposals on the Future of Youth Ministry in the United Methodist Church Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lovett Hayes Weems |
Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1426740379 |
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What decisions must be made now if The United Methodist Church is to have a future?
Author | : Richard B. Wilke |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780687013807 |
Download And are We Yet Alive? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : United Methodist Church (U.S.). General Council on Ministries |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : |
Download Issues in Our Future Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Christ United Methodist Church (Sterling, Colo.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 3 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Christian stewardship |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Andrew C. Thompson |
Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1426710208 |
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Author | : David McAllister-Wilson |
Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2018-04-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1501858904 |
Download A New Church and A New Seminary Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Many churches are “mule churches”–strong for a generation but unable to reproduce themselves. As a mule comes from a horse and a donkey, they were the product of demographics and cultural conditions conducive for a generation of strength but did not produce many offspring in new church starts or strong candidates for ministry. Mule churches create a generation or more of pastors, superintendents, and bishops who think they knew what made for strong church, who think their approach to ministry is the key reason for their success. And it produces churches with a nostalgia for the way things used to be. This makes it hard for churches to adapt to change. We've been declining for a long time due to changes in secular and consumer culture, demographics radically adjusting normative family structure, and a theology based in consumer marketing rather than mission-driven vitality. Now we realize that the church is free to not just make the gospel relevant to life but to make life relevant to the gospel. Conservative evangelical Christianity was able to focus on relevance prior to its ascendency on the national stage. Methodism requires a similar period of confessional self-definition. We are going through these confessions now in the debate about our stance toward homosexuality. Most students and most professors go to the seminary "to fix the church," because they realize that the future of the church and its seminaries are inseparable. Seminaries provide scholars for the church, who learn how to think, who learn how to take the long view, who shape identity, who foster a "culture of calling." A new kind of Methodist progressive evangelicalism is regenerating, which lives the great commandment (love) and the great commission (reproducing disciples) on a global scale. Before, seminaries prepared pastors to maintain healthy churches in stable neighborhoods. Now, every neighborhood is changing and many churches are losing their members and their confidence. They long for a recovery of their sense of mission and a new kind of leadership. A new kind of seminary is regenerating to foster hope, wisdom, creativity, and engagement with the great issues of our day.
Author | : Lovett H. Weems JR. |
Publisher | : Abingdon Press |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1426753829 |
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Few would argue that many challenges face The United Methodist Church. But what are the core issues and concerns, the ones that must be addressed if the church is to follow God’s leading into the future? Laying aside what can be merely tweaked or adjusted, what must the UMC “reset” about itself? Lovett Weems, one of the most highly-respected interpreters of contemporary United Methodism, suggests that we start with the following: - What will happen now that the increased giving that United Methodists have enjoyed (despite declining membership numbers) has reached a plateau and begun to decline? - Why, with 34,000 congregations and $6.5 billion in annual giving, can’t United Methodists add a net increase of even 1 new disciple of Jesus Christ in a given year? - Why are United Methodist clergy less concerned with reaching young adults than are laity? Why are laity unwilling to make the changes to worship and budgets required to attract these same young adults? - If the percentage of married couples with young children has declined by half since the 1950s, why is that still the group we focus on reaching? - Why are so many mid-sized churches on their way to becoming small-membership congregations? With insight, conviction, and calm resolve, Lovett Weems challenges United Methodists not only to ask these hard questions, but to face up to the difficult decisions they require of us as we continue to seek God’s will for our lives together.
Author | : Braaten |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-01-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780802826718 |
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Last year a group of sixteen theologians from various church traditions published "In One Body through the Cross, a landmark statement on the present state and future possibilities of modern ecumenism. In order to help readers understand the true depth of this document (also known as "The Princeton Proposal"), "The Ecumenical Future makes available the scholarly studies that stand behind it. According to the editors of this timely and provocative volume, "the perception is widespread that the ecumenical train is stalling or has even run off the tracks." In spite of significant gains in understanding between Catholics, Orthodox, and various Protestant denominations, the church's present divisions are nothing less than a scandal. Seen in the light of Jesus' prayer in John 17 that "all may be one," ecumenism is neither an option nor a social or political football. The fourteen essays in this book represent a focused examination of the issues that still divide and of the common ground still to be discovered.