Comments on: Open Call for God-Called Preachers

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By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:24:41 +0000

Bill, thanks for stopping by! In my mind, numbers provide one measure of ascertaining congregational health. Are there congregations that decrease in membership and gain in health? I think so. After all popularity doesn’t indicate faithfulness. However, neither does unpopularity. After all, we follow a God who promises to draw everyone to himself(John 12:32)! In my mind, 9 times out of 10 a dramatic decrease in attendance indicates a deeper problem.

I’m not sure I get your analogy though. Why does talking about numbers make you feel like people are asking obvious questions about a wreck? Sorry for being so dense!

By: Bill Sterling

Bill Sterling — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:05:48 +0000

Matt, I was intrigued by your post. I have been a UM pastor for 38 years and currently serve as a DS. Our conference is also searching for an understanding of what urban ministry can look like. In reading your mission statements, I am reminded of what a seminar presenter said about church mission statements. He said he saw one that said, “We are as good as we ever were.” As a DS of over 130 churches, I am beginning to wonder what the value of numbers is. Sometimes when we talk about numbers, I feel like the dazed driver standing by the car I have wrapped around a telephone pole, resting on its side. Someone comes up to me and asks, “Have an accident?” Don’t give up. Remember it is God’s church. I live by Philippians 1:6. Merry Christmas.

Bill Sterling

By: jack

jack — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:49:57 +0000

hum…

as one who has a heart for cities core….
longs for an enlivened body of Christ…
desires starting a community of people striving to follow the way…

I find it dumbfounding that OKUMC.org doesn’t have an urban ministry plan.

and this is in fact a project that I currently attempting… if the conf won’t try again, i will attempt.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:37:26 +0000

UJ – While I did include the mission statement as an example of the pitiful committee-written mess we often throw at problems, I intended the bulk of the judgment to be based on the actual results of that kind of response.

By: ksfrancis

ksfrancis — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 07:56:24 +0000

Hai, wonderful. I was in search such people and movement. In my own little way i reach out to people far away from my native place. I see that more and more young people are taking interest in Jesus Christ. I am deeply interest such ministry. I am in India. pl. contact

By: UMJeremy

UMJeremy — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:21:32 +0000

Matt, you wrote: “While I’m sure this doesn’t completely encompass their vision for these congregations, I can’t help but notice Jesus Christ is not mentioned anywhere here other than in their “common heritage in the Christian faith.””

This is kinda a small point, but judging a church by their lack of particular words in mission statements is humorous to me. It’s a shameless plug but check out such an approach to the UM seminaries here:

http://blog.hackingchristianity.net/2008/04/mission-holiness-rankings-of-umc.html

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Calling passionate preachers « John Meunier's blog — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:56:15 +0000

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