The General Conference of the United
Methodist Church met this Spring to deal with many proposals on dealing with a
multitude of crisis and significant needs that the United Methodist Church is
facing today. With all the proposals and hard work that was done, very little
was passed. Leaders in the church, across America, are asking questions about
our denomination could not respond to the obvious needs and crisis that we are
facing. Most of the answers have to do with simply resigning to the fact that
it takes a lot of time and a lot of discussion to make radical changes, as
necessary as they may be.
In the midst of this time of need for significant
change, leaders are critically important. One of the people who provides
leadership for the church, as a whole, particularly for the United Methodist
Church, is Lovett Weems. His talk on the Methodist Tsunami
has become a necessary one to watch for any concerned United Methodist and is
extremely helpful to anyone who wants to understand what is happening in the
mainline Protestant Church, today. See the online video, here.
Lovett has served as Seminary Dean and
now is the Director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership at Wesley
Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. He is among the leaders across the
United Methodist Church who is offering significant leadership at a critical
time. If you’d like to hear Lovett Weems speak in person, he will be speaking
at First United Methodist Church in Colorado Springs on August 1st
at an evening meeting. It is free and
open to the public. This is part of a three day conference Leadership Nexus is doing to provide
training in general leadership. Lovett will be not only teaching, but he will also
be leading in workshops, along with many other noted leaders across the Church.
We need each other’s help.
