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Coming this week

coming soon

New posts coming this week:

1 – How to Become an Evangelist – A guest post from Aaron Mansfield, one of the best evangelists I know. When I began writing about evangelism, I told you that I’m not very good at it. Aaron is. Much better for you to get wisdom from him than from me.

2 – John Wesley never heard of a traveling pastor – How John Wesley explained and understood different ministry roles, and how we have lost the distinctions he fought for.

3 – Traveling Apostles and Local Pastors: A proposal for better ministry today – We should change our understandings of ministry roles. This change can help us better reflect Scripture, honor our tradition, and minister in our current culture.

After that, what topics do you want to have more discussion about?

A statistical call to ministry…

I don’t plan to reblog often. But if you haven’t seen this from my friend Jonathan, I wanted to make sure you did.

jonathanapowers's avatarjonathan powers

Last week I had the privilege of serving as a lay delegate to the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. As this was my first time attending the conference in this capacity, I had the opportunity to sit in on many discussions on the current state of the Methodist church in Kentucky. Some of the details shared were quite encouraging. Some were very challenging. Some were deeply unsettling.

Below, I offer statistics reflecting Kentucky United Methodist Churches (KYUMC) in 2011. I share these statistics first of all to inform. Many were new to me, and they may be to you as well. You may not be Methodist or live in Kentucky, but I believe these statistics are fairly representative to many American churches. Second, I pray that this information will convict and urge you toward action, as they have done for me.

According to the conference treasurer’s report…

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I don’t plan to reblog often. But if you haven’t seen this from my friend Jonathan, I wanted to make sure you did.

jonathanapowers's avatarjonathan powers

Last week I had the privilege of serving as a lay delegate to the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. As this was my first time attending the conference in this capacity, I had the opportunity to sit in on many discussions on the current state of the Methodist church in Kentucky. Some of the details shared were quite encouraging. Some were very challenging. Some were deeply unsettling.

Below, I offer statistics reflecting Kentucky United Methodist Churches (KYUMC) in 2011. I share these statistics first of all to inform. Many were new to me, and they may be to you as well. You may not be Methodist or live in Kentucky, but I believe these statistics are fairly representative to many American churches. Second, I pray that this information will convict and urge you toward action, as they have done for me.

According to the conference treasurer’s report…

View original post 1,103 more words