A $20million Coup

A $20million Coup

United Methodist Church

Rev. Sara Baron

a truly disturbing plan...

Budgets are moral documents. They express what we really care about.

a very small group who think they can fix the church 

Unless we fix the church itself, and actually look like Jesus who we claim to follow, people will not be attracted to this movement.

This is a slush fund, or a blank check to a super-empowered small group.

(slush fund = dinero con propósitos ocultos)

Tengamos Misericordia

Vayamos (Go), tengamos misericordia

Bishop Sally Dyck

Sermon Transcript

...it’s inconceivable to me that we as UMs have one category of humanity as being “incompatible with Christian teaching.”

War is incompatible with the teachings of the gospel;

But even if you think that homosexuality is only about behavior, is it the worst/only category of humanity separated from Christian teaching?

“Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus…”

WHY ISN’T RACISM INCOMPATIBLE WITH CHRISTIAN TEACHING?

My point isn’t to add any other human categories to the list of what is incompatible with Christian teaching; my point is that while we’re not a perfect church, we can be a merciful one.

Conferencia General IMU

UMC General Conference: What's the Deal?

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Término de los/as Obispos/as IMU

Propuesta intenta limitar el término de los Obispos/Obispas en la conferencia General de la Iglesia Metodista Unida.

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General Conference this May again will take up the question of whether all United Methodist bishops should have limited terms of office.

"Danos un dirigente fuerte"

Paul F. Rack

"Give Us a King."

     

In 1 Samuel 8:4-18, the people of Israel clamor for a king.  The prophet Samuel reminds them that God is their king.  But this isn’t good enough for the people.  They want a human king so they can be like the other nations.

Here we meet the most perverse and rotten core of human ego-centricity: the desire to give up our freedom and turn our responsibility over to a Leader.  The German word for “leader” is most appropriate here: Fuehrer.  

There is in many of us a strong vein of authoritarianism.  That is, we value conformity, crave order, want to protect social norms and traditions, and are suspicious of outsiders.  When we are convinced to perceive some kind of threat, we are particularly hysterical about this.  And authoritarian leaders usually insist there is some kind of threat.

God spits out a warning to the people concerning exactly what they are bringing down on themselves.  It is a catalogue of abuse and exploitation that ends with God saying: “And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves; but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”

In other words, God says: “If you in your fear and anger insist on placing over yourselves an authoritarian Fuehrer, you’re on your own.  I will not save you.  You will have to suffer through to the end.  Only then, when you have fully experienced the dregs of destruction you have chosen to bring down on yourselves, will I relate to you again.”  After their 12-year infatuation with a strong leader, Germany was reduced to a pile of smoking ruins.