Violence in the pews
WEB EXCLUSIVE Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
A church should be a safe and inviting place to worship God and spend time

A church should be a safe and inviting place to worship God and spend time
When the church he leads became “doers of the Word,” akin to the exhortation in James 1:22, David Uth said it was “far beyond what I had prepared myself for.”
The United Methodist Church needs to institute widespread reforms — from consolidating general church agencies to holding bishops and clergy accountable for church growth — to revitalize the denomination, a churchwide advisory group says.
By Greg Warner DALLAS — In the days of the Old Testament, it was the role of the prophet to warn the people of God about impending dangers. In the Christian church of today, that role often falls to the church administrator, whose job it is to foresee threats that would put a congregation at [...]
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Developing leaders is actually part of the discipleship process. In the church, we are called to make disciples, not members.
Join top ministry leaders, pastors, and authors at noon and 7 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, for Operation World Live Global Prayer Celebration, a free online event hosted by Operation World editor Jason Mandryk at www.operationworld.org.

Outside our office we have a nice fish pond with a little waterfall and all the trimmings. We keep

As the year draws to a close and many churches consider personnel budgets,
Two Pennsylvania seminaries have been removed from a list of schools approved to train United Methodist clergy, following a June ruling by a denominational sanctioning body.
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