Bishop Ough and the General Secretaries
Posted by chuckinkansas on April 24, 2008
Wow Great talk by Bishop Ough on the 7 spiritual pathways. This guy is an amazing innovative bishop. I think he may have made the tipping point speech which changed the denominations direction at his first Annual Conference as a bishop. He called for 2 new churches in every district every year to transform the conference. I think this is one of the key moments that set off the new movement toward church planting and renewal in the church. You will want to watch this as soon as they post it online here:
http://www.umc.org/site/c.lwL4KnN1LtH/b.3989531/k.6155/General_Conference_Sights_and_Sounds.htm
The General Secretaries are now extolling the virtues of the 7 spiritual pathways. Thats funny to me because except for Karen Greenwalt they all fought the idea at least in its early stages…I heard the debate first hand and many were very unhappy with it. Looks like they have come around – I hope so because the bishops are dead on the money and doing great things. They need the cooperation of the bureaucracy, however, to move things forward.
