Many of us are fortunate enough to know what a good home feels like. It might be your biological home or with your in-laws or even with a group of good friends, but it’s so important to have a good home if we are going to do our best work.
In this week’s offering, I give you three questions to ask yourself (either as an individual or a church) to help in discerning if the UMC or GMC will be a good home.
I received this great question from one of our pastors in the Dakotas UMC: Our church has faithfully paid our pension bills so why would we owe more if we choose to leave the denomination?
Pensions are a complicated topic, but an analogy occurred to me that may help.
What is the destination for the United Methodist denomination? Is it staying unified? Is it separating amicably? Either of those are fine destinations, but our real destination is making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. What’s stopping us?
It took me a long time to accept that the United Methodist denomination was heading for a split. Does it have to be a messy, heavily litigated split? I hope not. It’ll be painful, but possibly we can lessen the damage by keeping these four principles in mind.
At a recent Town Hall, I tried to explain the unfunded pension liability that churches would owe if they leave the denomination. I didn’t do great so I’m going to try an analogy to explain it. I would love to hear your thoughts on it!
Last week, I was speaking to those planning to join the Global Methodist denomination. This week I’m focusing on those planning on staying United Methodist. Your church’s name and logo won’t be changing, but significant changes will be coming for the UMC. Here’s my thoughts on the subject.
Since the announcement that the Global Methodist denomination, I’ve had a number of pastors reach out to me and ask what this means for their church. Usually these are pastors of churches leaning towards leaving the UMC. Here’s what I’ve been sharing with them. The video gives some advice on what your church leadership can be doing now.
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