Diverse leaders’ group offers separation plan
By Sam Hodges, UMNS - A diverse, 16-member group of United Methodist bishops and other leaders has offered a proposal that would preserve The United Methodist Church while allowing traditionalist-minded congregations to form a new denomination. The separating group...
Key Bishops and Advocacy Group Leaders Propose Plan of Separation
By Walter Fenton, Wesleyan Covenant Association - Bishop Cynthia Fierro Harvey presides at the 2019 General Conference. Bishop Harvey is the Council of Bishops’ president-elect and she is one of the 16 signatories of the protocol agreement. Photo credit Council of...
Archive: The Evangelism of Jesus
Archive: The Evangelism of Jesus PART II By Robert E. Coleman, Professor of Evangelism, Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky Reprinted from "The Master Plan of Evangelism" Fleming H. Revell Co. © 1963, 1964 by Robert E. Coleman The first installment stressed...
Archive: The Question
Archive: The Question By Lon Woodrum Evangelist, author and Contributing Editor of "Good News" Reprinted from Christian Economics Magazine Our world may fall or survive according to how it answers an old question. Jesus put that question, not only to the argumentative...
Archive: It Took a Miracle
Archive: It Took a Miracle By George Anderson, Pastor, Mt. Oak United Methodist Church, Mitchellville, Maryland I was a Church member and a pastor for several years before I became a regenerated Christian, a man of the second birth. In those days before I found Jesus...
Archive: The Laymen Finally Got My Attention
Archive: The Laymen Finally Got My Attention By Merle G. Weaver, Assistant Pastor, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, Dallas, Texas I'm one of those Methodist preachers who was introduced to Christ by three laymen: a Presbyterian, an Episcopalian, and a Methodist, at a...
Archive: The Ministerial Faith Crisis Seen by a Local Pastor
Archive: The Ministerial Faith Crisis Seen by a Local Pastor By Howard E. Chattin, Pastor, United Methodist Church, Southport, Indiana Once a dog food company held a sales meeting. The president was pacing the floor. "We came out with this new dog food and everybody...
Archive: The Faith Crisis in a Seminary
Archive: The Faith Crisis in a Seminary By Dale A. Sanders, Pastor, United Methodist Churches of Bartley and Indianola, Nebraska Ever since high school, I knew I was called to the Methodist ministry. At a young age I was in love with Our Lord, His Church—and I was...
