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Podcast: Randy Maddox on ‘Methodist Doctrine, Spirit, Discipline’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Laity, Leadership Development, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus until after Labor Day. In the interim, we’re highlighting podcasts from our Spring 2010 season. This podcast features an address by Dr. Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon Quick Professor of Theology and Methodist Studies at Duke Divinity School. In his presentation, he focuses on a widely quoted statement made by Methodist [...]

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Prominent UM layman offers analysis of amendments outcome

Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Laity, North Georgia Conference, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged , on July 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »

A prominent United Methodist layman has compiled a percentage breakdown of last year’s votes on 32 proposed amendments to the United Methodist Constitution, showing the areas of the church in which the various amendments were most strongly supported or rejected. Although votes on the amendments took place at annual conference sessions in 2009, the totals [...]

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Podcast: Randy Maddox on Methodist ‘doctrine, spirit, discipline’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Laity, Leadership Development, Podcasts, Southeastern Jurisdiction, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

John Wesley, co-founder of the Methodist movement (along with his brother Charles), once wrote: I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And [...]

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Podcast — Harry Denman: ‘Are We Making Christ Known?’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, Laity, Sermons, United Methodist Men, tagged , , on February 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

MethodistThinker.com is on hiatus from posting new material for several weeks. During this time, we are showcasing podcasts from the fall of 2009. Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Foundation for Evangelism, founded in 1949 by Dr. Harry Denman. As young man in the 1920s, Harry Denman showed exceptional gifts in evangelism and [...]

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Podcast — Harry Denman: ‘Are We Making Christ Known?’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Evangelism, Laity, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Foundation for Evangelism, founded in 1949 by the featured speaker on this week’s MethodistThinker Podcast, Dr. Harry Denman. As young man in the 1920s, Harry Denman showed exceptional gifts in evangelism and administration — both in his service at the First Methodist Church of Birmingham, Alabama, and [...]

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Bishop James King: ‘We are returning to God’

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Holiness, Laity, Revival, United Methodist Church, United Methodist Men on February 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

South Georgia Bishop James King has a message for men in the Feb. 20 Wesleyan Christian Advocate, the newspaper of the North and South Georgia Conferences. Professional economists suggest that the stock market has a way of correcting itself when things go to one extreme or the other. It appears that “correction” is a part [...]

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Bishop Schnase: The downside of ‘risk-taking mission and service’

Posted in Bishops, Discipleship, Evangelism, Laity, Missions, United Methodist Church, tagged on February 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

During a Q-&-A session at  January’s UM Congress on Evangelism, Bishop Robert Schnase (Missouri Conference) noted that churches that engage in risk-taking mission must be willing to live with disappointment, failure, and uncertainty. Bishop Schnase (Schnay’-zee) is the author of The Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations (Abingdon, 2007). One of those five practices is “risk-taking [...]

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Billy Abraham on United Methodism: ‘There is no common faith among us’

Posted in Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, General Conference, Laity, Preaching, United Methodist Church, tagged on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Speaking earlier this month at the United Methodist Congress on Evangelism, Dr. William J. (Billy) Abraham said the seeds of United Methodism’s 40-year decline were sown inadvertently by one of the “founding fathers” of the denomination, the late Albert C. Outler. (Outler chaired the Theological Study Commission appointed  by the General Conference when the United [...]

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Lyn Powell on the new United Methodist membership vows

Posted in Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Evangelism, General Conference, Laity, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »

New membership vows for the United Methodist Church took effect on Jan. 1, 2009. Formerly, incoming members pledged “to be loyal to the United Methodist Church” and “to faithfully participate in its ministries by their prayers, their presence, their gifts, and their service.” Now, new members will pledge loyalty “to Christ through the United Methodist [...]

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Bishop Lindsey Davis: ‘A fully engaged laity’

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, Laity, North Georgia Conference, tagged on August 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

MethodistThinker.com is presenting a retrospective on Bishop Lindsey Davis 12 years as the leader of the North Georgia Conference, now the largest U.S. conference in the United Methodist Church. His tenure in North Georgia ends later this month. On June 16, 2004, speaking at the annual luncheon sponsored by the Conference Board of Laity (PDF), [...]

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