Rev. Jeff Greenway of Reynoldsburg, OH breaks down what the new Global Methodist Church is about in this 7 minute video and about how it radically differs from the current United Methodist Church.
Quick takes: 125 churches in the current Central Texas conference are leaving the UMC to join;
the Bulgarian and Romanian Methodist churches are joining along with churches in Latin America and 5 African conferences.
The new church will not be UMC 2.0. It will have a lean bureaucracy with no guaranteed clergy appointments and no lifetime appointments for bishops, who will not be given large administrative burdens but will be charged with preaching and defending the faith. Path to ordination for clergy candidates will be more rapid once they have demonstrated ministerial competence.
It will be interesting to see how many American churches and current UMC pastors leave the denomination to join the Global Methodists.
Oh, and this new church launches May 1.
Quick takes: 125 churches in the current Central Texas conference are leaving the UMC to join;
the Bulgarian and Romanian Methodist churches are joining along with churches in Latin America and 5 African conferences.
The new church will not be UMC 2.0. It will have a lean bureaucracy with no guaranteed clergy appointments and no lifetime appointments for bishops, who will not be given large administrative burdens but will be charged with preaching and defending the faith. Path to ordination for clergy candidates will be more rapid once they have demonstrated ministerial competence.
It will be interesting to see how many American churches and current UMC pastors leave the denomination to join the Global Methodists.
Oh, and this new church launches May 1.
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-Havelock Vetinari
-Havelock Vetinari