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Mission-minded conservative leaders in Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) launch new denomination

Posted in Church Renewal, Evangelism, Revival, Sermons, tagged , on January 30, 2012 |

With a goal of fostering “flourishing churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ,” the Fellowship of Presbyterians, a group of more than 500 theologically conservative congregations of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), has unveiled a new “denominational entity”: the Evangelical Covenant Order of Presbyterians (ECO). The official unveiling occurred at a Jan. 18-20 Covenanting Conference in [...]

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United Methodists are well-liked, but to what end?

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Growth, Evangelism, Holiness, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 11, 2012 |

The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served for many years as a pastor and district superintendent in the UMC’s North Indiana Conference (now the Indiana Conference). He is the author of Evangelical and Methodist: A Popular History (Abingdon Press) [...]

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Happy Birthday to The Mission Society

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, Missions, United Methodist Church on January 6, 2012 |

The Mission Society (formerly The Mission Society for United Methodists) is celebrating its 28th birthday today. Society president Dick McClain recounts the founding: A small gathering of people met together in an airport hotel in St. Louis. Like any other meeting, this one had potential — potential to be hardly remembered just a few months [...]

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Podcast — George Hunter: Can the once-great Methodist movement become a movement again?

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Politics, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on May 26, 2011 | 5 Comments »

On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. George Hunter of Asbury Seminary details how Methodism, at least in its institutional United Methodist form, has become what it was once a reaction against. In his remarks, recorded earlier this year at United Methodist Congress on Evangelism, Dr. Hunter asks if “a once great movement” — [...]

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Podcast — Bishop Lindsey Davis: Will the UMC have the courage to do what needs to be done?

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Evangelism, General Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on May 13, 2011 | 4 Comments »

On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Bishop Lindsey Davis of the Kentucky Annual Conference says the United Methodist Church must repent of its missional lethargy and re-commit itself to the purposes of God in Jesus Christ if it hopes to have renewed life. In his remarks, recorded last fall at a meeting of the [...]

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Beyond a reasonable doubt: accounts of the Resurrection

Posted in Doctrine, Evangelism on April 21, 2011 | 6 Comments »

Each of the four gospels — Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John — offers an account of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. These accounts contain several divergences in detail. Was there one angel who appeared at the tomb (Matt. 28, Mark 16), or two (Luke 24, John 20)? Did Mary Magdalene go to the tomb alone [...]

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Dr. Timothy Tennent on Rob Bell’s domesticated gospel

Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, Evangelism, Preaching, United Methodist Church on March 25, 2011 | 13 Comments »

The following commentary is by Timothy C. Tennent, president of Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Ky., one of the top training institutions for United Methodist clergy (Asbury also has a Florida campus). Below, Dr. Tennent offers a critique of Rob Bell’s controversial book, Love Wins: Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever [...]

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Podcast encore: Dr. Billy Abraham on ‘Connecting Doctrine and Evangelism’

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Evangelism, General Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on February 9, 2011 |

MethodistThinker.com is on its semi-annual hiatus (observed in February and August). This month, we are showcasing podcasts from the fall of 2010. The premiere podcast of our fall 2010 season featured Methodist theologian Dr. Billy Abraham, the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology Born in North Ireland in [...]

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A word from Mr. Wesley: ‘The first doctrine’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, Holiness, Preaching, Revival, United Methodist Church on February 2, 2011 |

This is the second installment of a monthly MethodistThinker feature for 2011 that  presents excerpts from the writings of John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement. Because the use of language changes with the passage of time, the wording in these excerpts has been slightly updated, based on the adaptation found in Renew My Heart [...]

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Podcast: Billy Graham at the 1980 UM Congress on Evangelism

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Evangelism, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on December 6, 2010 |

The final MethodistThinker Podcast of 2010 features an address by the foremost American evangelist of the 20th century, the Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, speaking at the 1980 United Methodist Congress on Evangelism. Born in North Carolina in 1918, William Franklin Graham gave his life to Jesus Christ at a evangelistic service in Charlotte in 1934. [...]

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Podcast — Billy Abraham: ‘Connecting Doctrine and Evangelism’

Posted in Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, General Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on September 20, 2010 |

The premiere podcast of our fall 2010 season features Methodist theologian Dr. Billy Abraham, the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at SMU’s Perkins School of Theology Born in North Ireland in 1947, William J. Abraham was educated at Queen’s University in Belfast, Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, and the University of Oxford [...]

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