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Should we turn control of UMC over to the Council of Bishops?

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, Church Renewal, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , on January 19, 2012 | Comments Off

The following commentary is by Joe M. Whittemore, a member of the United Methodist Church’s Connectional Table. Mr. Whittemore, a delegate to the 2012 UM General Conference, has chaired Committee on Episcopacy for the Southeastern Jurisdiction and has served as the Lay Leader of North Georgia Annual Conference. This opinion piece was originally published in a [...]

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Call to Action member: We must foster vital congregations or ‘we do not have a future with hope’

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , , , on June 13, 2011 | 5 Comments »

A member of the United Methodist Church’s Call to Action Steering Team says the team’s task was to be “prophetic” and to avoid the “terminal niceness” that has long inhibited realistic discussion of the challenges facing the denomination. “We were asked to do a deep study of the church,” the Rev. Jorge Acevedo, lead pastor [...]

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Podcast: Steve Wende on electing delegates to GC 2012

Posted in Church Renewal, Doctrine, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, Podcasts, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on June 7, 2011 | 1 Comment »

On this edition of the MethodistThinker Mini-Podcast, Dr. Stephen P. Wende, senior pastor of First United Methodist Church–Houston, Texas, urges the election of delegates to the 2012 UMC General Conference “who will represent God-honoring, Kingdom-focused, Christ-first, biblically strong positions.” He says that the outcome of this year’s elections will determine whether or not the future [...]

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Podcast encore: Bishop Alfred Norris on ‘Vitality in Ministry’

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, North Georgia Conference, Ordination, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

During February, while MethodistThinker is on hiatus from new postings, we’re showcasing podcasts from our fall 2010 season. This podcast features an address by Bishop Alfred Norris. Born in Louisiana in 1938, Alfred Lloyd Norris was educated at Dillard University in New Orleans and Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta. After serving for 16 years as [...]

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Steve Wende: Doctrinal orthodoxy should be deciding factor in choosing GC delegates

Posted in Book of Discipline, Church Renewal, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on January 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The pastor of one of the United Methodist Church’s largest congregations is urging those casting votes for delegates to the 2012 General Conference not to allow personal friendships to carry more weight than theological orthodoxy. “[If a brother or sister wants my vote] and yet they don’t believe the same things I do, all I [...]

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Podcast: Bishop Alfred Norris on ‘Vitality in Ministry’

Posted in Bishops, Church Renewal, North Georgia Conference, Ordination, Podcasts, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on October 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The latest MethodistThinker Podcast features an address by Bishop Alfred Norris, currently interim president of Atlanta’s Gammon Theological Seminary. Born in Louisiana in 1938, Alfred Lloyd Norris was educated at Dillard University (New Orleans) and Gammon Seminary. After serving for 16 years as a United Methodist pastor and district superintendent in his native state, he [...]

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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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Bishop Scott Jones: Rethinking the path to a worldwide UMC

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, Christian/Methodist History, General Conference, Judicial Council, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on June 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »

Following the defeat of proposed constitutional amendments aimed at restructuring the United Methodist Church into a series of more-autonomous regional conferences, the bishop who heads the Committee to Study the Worldwide Nature of the UMC is appealing for help in finding a restructuring approach that will gain approval across the denomination. Speaking last week at [...]

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Podcast—Maxie Dunnam: ‘Pastor as Prophet, Priest, Evangelist’

Posted in Doctrine, Evangelism, North Georgia Conference, Ordination, Podcasts, Preaching, Sermons, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The final podcast of our spring season features one of the most prominent United Methodist leaders of recent decades: Dr. Maxie Dunnam. Maxie Dunnam was born in Mississippi in 1934. After earning a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi (1955), he went on to earn a Master of Theology from Atlanta’s [...]

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Four things the UMC must do ‘to serve the present age’

Posted in Church Development, Church Growth, Church Renewal, Discipleship, Doctrine, Holiness, Media, North Georgia Conference, United Methodist Church, tagged , on May 27, 2010 | 3 Comments »

This post is by Richard Hunter, senior pastor of Snellville United Methodist Church (North Georgia Conference). He holds a doctorate in parish revitalization from McCormick Theological Seminary (Chicago) and teaches on the adjunct faculty at both Asbury Theological Seminary and the Candler School of Theology. — Ed. I want to be a part of renewing [...]

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North Georgia overwhelmingly disapproves restructuring amendments

Posted in Bishops, Book of Discipline, General Conference, North Georgia Conference, Social Issues, United Methodist Church, tagged , , on June 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »

By an average tally of 94% to 6%, delegates to the 2009 session of the North Georgia Annual Conference voted disapproval of five amendments aimed at restructuring the United Methodist Church into “regional” conferences that would have greater national autonomy. Final approval or disapproval of the amendments, all of which received a two-thirds majority endorsement [...]

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