“Gain all you can…. save all you can… give all you can.” — John Wesley on giving from his sermon, “The Use of Money.”
NEWS AND FEATURES
Ask The UMC
What does the church teach about tithing?
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tithing is commonly understood as the giving of one-tenth of one’s income for God. John Wesley offered an even higher standard for giving. Ask The UMC reports on what Wesley said and what The United Methodist Church teaches.
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Organization combats deforestation in Zimbabwe
HARARE, Zimbabwe (UMNS) — An organization founded by an Africa University graduate is collaborating with the government on a sustainable forestation program. Kudzai Chingwe reports.
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Southport Trinity United Methodist Church
Ministry idea: Worshipping in midst of hurricane
SOUTHPORT, N.C. — With Hurricane Florence’s approach forcing most of their church family to evacuate, leaders of Trinity United Methodist Church found a way to bring worship to scattered churchgoers through a collection of videos.
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PRESS RELEASES
United Methodist Publishing House
Publishing House releases Discipline fixes
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The United Methodist Publishing House has released a new edition of the 2016 Book of Discipline’s Errata, which includes changes to Paragraphs 408.3, 410 and 422. These changes are related to a constitutional amendment ratified in May. That amendment allows the Council of Bishops “to hold its individual members accountable for their work, both as general superintendents and as presidents and residents in episcopal areas.”
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Council of Bishops
Church leaders head to world religious meeting
WASHINGTON — Scores of United Methodists will join about 10,000 Christians and other religious leaders at the next gathering of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Toronto on Nov. 1-7. The purpose of the Parliament is to promote interreligious harmony, rather than unity.
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COMMENTARIES
United Methodist News Service plans to include various commentaries about proposals for the future of the church in the Daily Digest over the coming months. The commentaries will reflect a variety of viewpoints and are the opinions of the writers, not the UMNS staff. Today’s commentaries offer different perspectives on unity.
What is a ‘good’ witness?
HOUSTON — In a column for Good News magazine, the Rev. Thomas Lambrecht argues for why he thinks traditionalists and progressives should go their separate ways. “We have in the church two groups that believe the other group is bringing erroneous or false teaching into the church,” he writes.
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I’m a Christian, too
LENEXA, Kansas — The Rev. David Livingston, senior pastor of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, writes in response, saying Lambrecht is using a false premise. “We need each other to remind us that we are united more by God's love than by our rightness of doctrine AND to remind us that doctrine does matter,” Livingston writes.
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