a future with hope for the United Methodist Church /
edited by Andrew C. Thompson.
Nashville :
Abingdon Press,
c2011.
xvii, 164 p. ;
22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-164).
Introduction. Standing at the crossroads / Andrew C. Thompson -- Discipleship : Christian life and the means of grace / Andrew C. Thompson -- Holy Communion : take and eat, taste and see / Timothy Reinhold Eberhart -- Preaching : telling the story in a sound-bite culture / Joy Jittaun Moore -- Evangelism : leaning toward both God and world / Jeffrey Conklin-Miller -- Small groups : bearing one another's burdens / Kevin M. Watson -- Missions : letting the Gospel translate us / Arnold S. Oh -- Race : grace and unity in the post-Civil Rights era / F. Douglas Powe, Jr -- Ecology : salvation in, through, and for creation / Presian Burroughs -- Youth ministry : reclaiming the art of confirmation / Sarah Arthur -- Young adults : members of the body / Julie O'Neal -- Ordination : calling(s) to ministry in a postmodern church / Eric Van Meter -- Internet ministry : delivering the message in cyberspace / Shane Raynor -- Conclusion. Once you were no people, but now you are God's people / Andrew C. Thompson.