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Chris Ritter

@RitterChris

People Need Jesus | Pastor | Abingdon Press Author | Seven Things John Wesley Expected Us to Do for Kids | History | Blogger

Geneseo, IL Katılım Ağustos 2009
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Global Methodist Church@GlobalMChurch·
⛪️As the 2026 General Conference of the Global Methodist Church in Johannesburg approaches, annual conference delegations are invited to provide three important inputs to the election/assignment process for bishops. 🖱️Visit beautyofholiness2026.org to view the discernment guide.
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Ellen Fuoto
Ellen Fuoto@emf1947·
@RitterChris @TalbotDavis Never got an answer to this, so I’ll just assume that nothing untoward will happen to me if I don’t read the book review.
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Chris Ritter@RitterChris·
@laura_nelson8 Having $9 million in debt as a local church is helpful in getting conference leaders to work collaboratively with your congregation.
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Laura nelson@laura_nelson8·
@RitterChris Wait, so Embrace Church is out here representing 20% of the total worship attendance like it's the most popular kid in the UMC conference? 😂 And somehow, they cracked the code to Par. 2549 without angering the judicial council? Who’s got the secret sauce for that kind of grace?
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Chris Ritter@RitterChris·
Embrace Church in Sioux Falls represented some 20% of the total worship attendance of its #UMC conference. Chancellors determined that Par. 2549 can be used for its intended purpose without violating recent Judicial Council rulings. dakotasumc.org/news/dakotas-c…
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Chris Ritter@RitterChris·
Church court rules that congregations cannot leave the #UMC with their property. This shuts down exit processes in conferences where churches were promised an exit if they just stuck around to see what happened at General Conference. umnews.org/en/news/church…
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Willard Knipp
Willard Knipp@wknipp3·
@PlainSpokenPod @WesleyWanderer @twbe @RitterChris Local churches in the 2553 discernment process were chastised by some, "Why are you leaving when nothing has changed yet?" Others stayed to see what happened, having been promised they could leave. Some of us knew better.
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Chris Ritter@RitterChris·
@twbe This nuance was commonly not offered! Here it was said “don’t worry about Par. 2553 expiring, there’s always been ways to leave the UMC.” Par. 2549 has been used for decades for those few congregations that wanted to exit as a unit while retaining their property, they said.
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Chris Ritter@RitterChris·
@markdtooley Not great or surprising. I met a GMC pastor yesterday serving a two-point UMC/GMC parish (with the UM bishop's blessing). The reality in micro rural churches is that pastors must be locally sourced. This takes us back to pioneer days when federated churches were the norm.
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Learned today of small exited United Methodist church that technically joined Global Methodism but hired Baptist pastor who’s rebaptizing etc. Laity never learned Wesleyan distinctives. Baptist is now USA default evangelicalism unless other distinctives robustly taught.
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