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Examining United Methodist renewal & Wesleyan social witness. Collated by @MarkDTooley, METHODISM & POLITICS IN 20TH CENTURY author (https://t.co/QezRpSmWms).
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Can anything then be more absurd, than for men to cry out, "The Church! The Church!" and to pretend to be very zealous for it, and violent defenders of it, while they themselves have neither part nor lot therein, nor indeed know what the Church is And yet the hand of God is in this very thing! Even in this his wonderful wisdom appears, directing their mistake to his own glory, and causing "the earth to help the woman." [Rev. 12:16] ...John Wesley
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Presumably today's equivalent is podcasting, TikToking, YouTubing, etc. And Wesleyans are bizarrely absent online.
Shane Raynor@ShaneRaynor
Methodism was a frontier movement that grew in large part because of open-air preaching. What is 2026's "frontier" and what is its "open-air preaching"?
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We don't know the membership size of Global Methodist Church. It has over 4000 USA congregations, from among nearly 8000 exited UM churches. GMC has likely membership of 500,000 to 700,000.
Jeff Walton@jeffreyhwalton
Among the more remarkable misperceptions in this country is the size of denominations. Presbyterian Church in America is 3x size of @The_ACNA, Global Methodist Church is nearly 8x the size, but you’d never know it online. Anglican Twitter, blogosphere are just more active.
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True. The Methodist/Wesleyan model was less clerical. Itinerant clergy visited church perhaps monthly while laity otherwise ran the show. Non-itinerant clergy were stationed maybe 2-5 years. Clergy are members of the conference not the congregation.
Bob Smietana@bobsmietana
@markdtooley Yes - that's true. The autonomous local church/believers' baptism model won out. We have seem a decline of congregational polity - with a new kind of clericalism with pastors/staff calling the shots
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Denominations as institutions are declining but the Baptist tradition & ethos are surging.
QuAnglican (thee/thou)@CharlesBartlet2
@markdtooley Aren't all sects in decline, only the liberals more rapidly? I think the answer is clear enough-- lack of identity, no formation, basic absence of discipline.
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Mark is correct about Baptists. Most of those “community churches” and “-pointe churches” are Baptist and the rest are store brand Pentecostal/charismatic. People are thinking post-denominationally now.
@markdtooley@markdtooley
Nondenominational typically means Baptist without the name. So USA Protestantism is close to 60% Baptist ethos. In 19th century one third of all Americans & likely over half of Protestants were Methodist. What caused the shift?
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Presumably Baptist/nondenom congregationalism better appealed to USA individualism than did Methodist/Wesleyan connectionalism.
@markdtooley@markdtooley
Nondenominational typically means Baptist without the name. So USA Protestantism is close to 60% Baptist ethos. In 19th century one third of all Americans & likely over half of Protestants were Methodist. What caused the shift?
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@caseytaylor Yep, the UMC has almost killed the brand. It’s no surprise to me that many GMCs would rather be a store brand community church. God willing, orthodox Methodists will take back the name as progressive Methodism fades into oblivion.
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@ShaneRaynor A ministry colleague was hiring for a staff position. When candidates heard "Methodist," they ran. Didn't matter if they said, "No, we're not UMC!"
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It's a Wesley-inspired Wednesday! Hope God's Word is helping you grow in Spirit today.
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In the latest in our series “Methodism and Me”, Stephen Poxon reveals the influence of the Methodist Church on his Salvation Army upbringing.
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I really appreciated Pastor Beau Stringer’s response to a podcast host’s question: What do you see as the main issue facing Christianity in the US today?
His answer: the sin of certainty
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If I asked you to name the ten largest religious denominations in the United States, I'm sure you could probably get half the list pretty quickly.
But I think many people would fail to list Jehovah's Witnesses.
3M strong.
2x the size of Episcopalians.
graphsaboutreligion.com/p/politically-…
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Pray with us today.
We thank you, our Father and Mother, for teaching us the value of hope in the midst of the storms that accompany our lives...
Find more ways to pray at methodist.org.uk/prayer.
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Egalitarianism a modern concession to secular culture?? Historical exceptions may surprise you. lightenough.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/ega… via @EnoughLight
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Sain Luke's United Methodist Church, Houston, Texas (United Methodist Church)
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Come Alive Daily for Matthew 18:15-35 with reflections on church discipline and the nature of forgiveness, both divine and human: mailchi.mp/ea7f3b503428/c… @jonell_shelby @jhaskinscabrera
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As America marks its 250th anniversary, the Jewish and Christian moral foundations of the Revolution must not be forgotten.
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