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Riley Case: Seminaries and the decline of United Methodism

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Camp Meeting, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, Leadership Development, Ordination, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The following commentary is by Riley B. Case, associate executive director of the Confessing Movement Within the United Methodist Church. Dr. Case served 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) and [...]

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Adam Hamilton: How the UMC can have ‘a future with hope’

Posted in Church Growth, Church Renewal, Leadership Development, Media, Preaching, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on October 11, 2010 | 9 Comments »

To reverse the United Methodist Church’s decades-long membership decline in the United States, local UM churches must embrace innovation and commit themselves to constant improvement, according to Adam Hamilton, leader of one of the UMC’s largest and most successful churches. Hamilton, founder and senior pastor of  the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection (COR) in [...]

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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 |

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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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 |

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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Coming soon: The MethodistThinker Podcast

Posted in Bishops, Leadership Development, Media, Preaching, United Methodist Church on March 23, 2009 |

A recent post by Southern Baptist blogger Trevin Wax has stirred my thinking about how bishops and other UM leaders can more effectively sow into the lives of younger pastors and leaders. I continue to see articles and hear comments about the loss of young pastors from the ranks of the [Southern Baptist Convention]…. To [...]

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John Ed Mathison: Six ways for a pastor to make a lasting difference

Posted in Church Renewal, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged on March 6, 2009 |

In his address last week to North Georgia’s Wesleyan Covenant Renewal Movement, Dr. John Ed Mathison focused not only on seven concerns about the United Methodist Church, but on six specific ways pastors can become more intentional about make a lasting difference in the lives of others. Dr. Mathison, who “retired” last year following more [...]

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John Ed Mathison: Seven concerns about the UMC

Posted in Book of Discipline, General Conference, Judicial Council, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference, Stewardship, UM Higher Education, United Methodist Church, tagged on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The man who led one of the United Methodist Church’s strongest and largest congregations for more than three decades shared his “ideas and opinions” last week about the future of the denomination. Dr. John Ed Mathison, pastor of Frazer Memorial UMC in Montgomery, Ala., for 36 years, spoke at a gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant [...]

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John Ed Mathison on the future of the United Methodist Church

Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, General Conference, Leadership Development, tagged on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

From the Wesleyan Covenant Renewal Movement, a group of theologically conservative pastors and leaders in the North Georgia Conference: The next meeting of the Wesleyan Covenant Renewal Movement will be [Tuesday morning] Feb. 24 at Norcross First UMC. Dr. John Ed Mathison will speak on the state of the church in the aftermath of the [...]

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‘Refocused on our divinely appointed mission’

Posted in Church Renewal, Discipleship, Evangelism, Leadership Development, tagged on September 25, 2008 |

The UM General Board of Global Ministries and The Mission Society are jointly sponsoring (for the first time) a missions conference: “Beyond These Walls.” The conference, hosted by McEachern UMC in the Atlanta area, begins next Thurs. Oct. 2 and concludes Sat. Oct. 4. Speakers include North Georgia Bishop Mike Watson; Eddie Fox, director of [...]

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Bishop Lindsey Davis: A vision for the future

Posted in Bishops, Church Development, Evangelism, Leadership Development, North Georgia Conference on August 21, 2008 |

This week and next, MethodistThinker.com is offering a retrospective on Bishop Lindsey Davis’ 12-year tenure as the leader of the United Methodist Church’s North Georgia Conference. (He will become the bishop of the Kentucky Conference on Sept. 1.) Since being assigned to North Georgia in 1996, Bishop Davis has used his episcopal office to promote [...]

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