At the 11th annual Leadership Institute, held last week at the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, host pastor Adam Hamilton urged pastors and lay preachers to focus on improving the quality of their preaching. “We are in desperate need today of excellent preaching,” he said during the conference’s Oct. 9 morning [...]
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Adam Hamilton: ‘We are in desperate need of excellent preaching’
Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Preaching, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio, UMC, United Methodist Church on October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Bishop Robert Schnase on ‘The Five Practices’
Posted in Bishops, Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Stewardship, United Methodist Church, tagged Audio on January 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bishop Robert Schnase (Missouri Conference) has done a great service for the United Methodist Church with his book, The Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations.
The United Methodist News Service notes that “[p]ublisher Abingdon Press has sold nearly 75,000 copies of the Five Practices book, and demand is hot for the companion leader manual and media kit [...]
For the pastor on your Christmas gift list
Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, Stewardship on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Looking for just the right gift for a preacher? I suggest Warren Lathem and Dan Dunn’s book, Preaching for a Response: Leading New Believers into Spiritual Maturity, released earlier this year by Bristol House.
The authors (Lathem has served as a pastor, district superintendent, and seminary president; Dunn has been a pastor, associate pastor, and missionary) [...]
New research: What Americans really believe
Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Growth, Church Renewal, Evangelism, United Methodist Church on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This graph, based on research by social scientist Rodney Stark, appears in the October issue of the AFA Journal:
As you can see, United Methodists are among those who ought to “read ‘em and weep.” The Methodist Church had almost 59 members per 1,000 people in the U.S. in 1960. By the turn of the century, [...]
