Working together to discern God's leading
Partisanship in the church is not an obstacle to uniting the church. Closed mindedness to the other person and enmity is what is fatal if we are interested in uniting the church. United Methodist Church (USA) – A Case Study For many years the United Methodist Church (USA), hereafter the UMC, has been tearing itself … Continue reading “Uniting The Church – Is it Possible?”
Welcome This is the first post from makingchurchdecisions.com! Julia and I are very excited to be offering resources in support of consensus based decision making in the church. We hope that our site will be a place where we can learn from, and encourage each other. Greetings from the team. Who we are Julia is a layperson in … Continue reading “Welcome to “Making Church Decisions””
Politics and Consensus Politics is full of conflict. Observers call out for greater collaboration rather than political point scoring. People understand that as a society we have too many shared problems to enjoy the luxury of opposing the ideas of others for no good reason. Most people long for our leaders to constructively engage together in … Continue reading “Politics and Consensus”
Making Church Decisions has always been about helping people to communicate well, to care and to assist people to connect at a deeper level. In that spirit I (Terence) have started a new ministry to operate along side Making Church Decisions. During COVID 19 many Ministers and congregations have experimented with the use of technology … Continue reading “A free webinar on digital ministry”
Blind spots and me Blind spots – all of us have differing degrees of ignorance about what is going on inside us. In the previous post, I used the example of white privilege as a case study on blind spots. There I wrote about the reality of them and how they distort our relationships and … Continue reading “Overcoming our blind spots”