Episode 341: Christy Thomas - The UMC Must Die

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Introduction

00:00 • 5min

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The UMC Must Die to Have Any Hope of Life

05:23 • 2min

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Is There a General Conference?

07:00 • 2min

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The Church Is Not Organic, It Just Doesn't Work, It's Just Awkward

08:47 • 2min

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How Can We Create Healthy Local Churches?

10:49 • 4min

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We Need a Trump in the United Methodist Church

14:46 • 2min

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We Don't Have an Elimination System

16:37 • 3min

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How Can We Hold Even a Congregation Together?

19:45 • 2min

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What Do People Do When They Get Afraid?

21:31 • 3min

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Is It a Real Luxury to Be Liberal?

24:13 • 2min

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Itinerancy Guaranteed Appointments

25:53 • 2min

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Are You Going to Take Care of Me, Ok?

27:36 • 2min

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Is There a Way to Weed the Garden?

29:22 • 2min

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How Do We Deal With Sick Churches?

31:18 • 2min

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Plants, You Can't Do This to Me.

32:56 • 3min

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The Itinerant Preacher's Job Is to Deliver the Gospel

35:34 • 2min

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The Problem Isn't a Problem at the Congregational Level, It's Something That the Church Needs to Figure Out

37:39 • 2min

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The Most Effective Model of Ship Ever in Its Pure Wesleyan

40:04 • 2min

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Can We Dissolve the Church and Just Let It Go?

41:50 • 2min

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We're Just Bleeding Money

43:54 • 2min

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Are We Going to Die in a Nursing Home?

45:30 • 2min

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Are You Going to Be What Without a Congregation Anymore?

47:13 • 2min

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Are You Asking the Hard Questions?

49:02 • 2min

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Why Aren't We Putting Young People on Hospice Care?

51:19 • 2min

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How Do We Want to Rebirth as a Congregation?

53:14 • 2min

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The Voice of the Prophetic Church

55:02 • 2min

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I'll Get Your Hat

56:44 • 3min