BONUS BLOG: ready to move forward, XMCs*?

Jack Harnish summarizes and shares well – –

Adam Hamilton expresses my hope for the UMC, and (in my better moments), my hope for the GMC:"I wish God's blessings on each of the church's that disaffiliated. These are our brothers and sisters and they will reach people our UM congregations may not reach. But I'm proud to be a United Methodist and excited about what God is doing, and will do, through United Methodist Churches in the years ahead!

From the latest data we have on disaffiliations in the US, of those churches disaffiliating, it appears 2,000 to 3,000 have or will join the GMC and the GMC will have about 450,000 members. Another 2,000 will be non-denominational or join another Methodist denomination. The UMC will have 24,000 to 26,000 churches with about 4.5 million members.”

Thanks, Adam. It’s time for United Methodists to move forward “making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.”

—- So, what say you?

*XMC is, to the best of my knowledge, a designation of my own making with which I intend to describe what I perceive at this moment to be Generic Methodists.