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TUESDAY, JUL 10, 2007| 2 comments

New Methodist President Challenges Church to Rediscover its Calling

The new President of the Methodist Conference, the Rev Martyn Atkins, has challenged the Methodist Church to rediscover its calling to bring people to Christ, as he set out renewal as one of the major priorities for the coming year.

Rev Atkins was sworn in as President at last weekâ€™s Methodist Conference in Blackpool. In his first address to Conference, Rev Atkins told Methodists that God was the â€œsupreme missionary and evangelistâ€ as he reminded them that the Church was created to share Godâ€™s mission â€œto restore and renew all thingsâ€.

â€œSharing Godâ€™s mission then, is the Churchâ€™s core reason for being, its true calling. Church defined in this way never finds itself by looking in on itself, but by pouring itself out, like its Lord,â€ he told Conference delegates. ...

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7/10/07 2:13 PM

Jim Lincoln

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I assume the British Methodists are in the same condition as the American ones? To wit,

http://bibleanswers.us/modernist_preacher.htm

and,

"United Methodists at the End of the Mainline"

http://www.leaderu.com/ftissues/ft9806/articles/abraham.html

7/10/07 12:00 PM

Thurant

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"has challenged the Methodist Church to rediscover its calling to bring people to Christ"

Another Liberal group trying to be church?

Their Liberal ideologies goes way back to Wesley too. He first put women in the pulpit.

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