6 Questions for The United Methodist Church

Clergy and lay leaders of the United Methodist Church face a huge challenge over the next several years, uniting a largely divided denomination. This division comes at a time when the United States has become the third largest mission field in the world, and when economic hardship has given us fewer resources to work with. Our unity is critical for our churches to survive, however unity can not come from the top but must come from local churches partnering in ministry. We also must put our differences aside with other denominations in order to serve the cities where we live well and see many come to Christ. This can only be done by hard working lay men and women developing creative ideas and voicing them to our clergy. United Methodist Young Clergy have given those lay leaders and local pastors a medium to voice ideas and questions for the entire denomination at www.umcyoungclergy.com/6qumc. There you can browse through a list of topics for questions that have been submitted. You can vote on questions and even submit your own. Every two weeks a new topic will be voted on until September 30th. As a layman in the United Methodist Church I encourage you to pray for your local churches and for The Church, to seek wisdom from the Holy Spirit, and to respond well by serving in your church and uniting with other christian in your city to see the Fathers will done.