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Apr 25 • 28 tweets • 6 min read
Welcome to #UMC General Conference Day 3. It will be an eventful day with an anticipated first vote on Worldwide Regionalization, a presentation on a new way to deploy bishops, and more!
Tap for today’s live thread 🧵 #umcgc
We’ll start with deception. The #UMC antigay caucus (WCA/GMC/Good News) produced the following flier without writing their name on it (but we know who wrote it, of course) and handed it to delegates. So I guess this is “let your yes be yes” 📕 we are dealing with today. #umcgc
Jan 23, 2020 • 60 tweets • 52 min read
#Thread for reflections, commentary, and snark on the Pre-General Conference briefing in Nashville. This is billed as more “informational” than “conversational” event—so those aspects will be here!
Scroll for the whole thread and hold onto your butts.
I think this article misses the mark: it isn’t about sensationalistic age discrimination.
1. It’s a church restart. We do a number of these in the northwest. The church closes, then a new church start begins in the old building. So the church is wholly new...
1. (cont’d) It sounds like the AC hasn’t done the work to get the closing congregation on board with the mission, but the process is not in error. We’ve seen it work before. The AC had better take some deep learnings as to why the situation dissolved to this article.
