Omnia Methodist Posts

The State of New York has fined three Amish schools $118,000 for refusing childhood vaccinations. The schools take no public money. Counsel says the families can pay the judgments only if the state takes their land.

The Global Methodist Church is making waves across the Christian world as it reports remarkable growth in both congregations and regional conferences. The denomination, which stands firmly on biblical principles and traditional Christian values, recently gathered more than 1,100 faithful believers for its General Conference held on the African continent.

The Global Methodist Church adopted a new set of Articles of Faith and elected eight bishops to its first regular Assembly of Bishops as its General Conference concluded Sept. 5 at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg. According to the denomination, the bishops were chosen over five ballots and consecrated on the conference’s final day. […]

Lay and clergy representatives of the Global Methodist Church (GMC) spent a busy week in Johannesburg, South Africa, at the newly created denomination’s second General Conference. Delegates to the General Conference of the Global Methodist Church worship together in Johannesburg, South Africa. Priorities included electing eight new bishops to replace the interim episcopal structure established […]

Something striking is happening in the aftermath of the historic United Methodist Church split. The Global Methodist Church, the conservative denomination launched amid years of fierce theological division within the UMC, is reporting remarkable growth, expanding from approximately 4,700 congregations in 2024 to 7,250 today. According to The Christian Post, the GMC revealed that more […]

Can Christians be perfect? John Wesley believed they could. But he didn’t mean sinless perfection. In this episode of Theology Project, Dr. Chris Lohrstorfer joins me to discuss John Wesley’s Sermon 40, “Christian Perfection,” and one of the most distinctive—and often misunderstood—doctrines of the Wesleyan tradition. What did Wesley actually mean by Christian perfection?

AI may kill us. At least, that’s what a number of experts in the field are saying. One of the more recent iterations of this idea comes from Jacob Coxon:

As a longtime Methodist, I can attest that—at least from a distance—it is not the most dramatic of the world’s religious operations. Very little incense, not much speaking in tongues, and sulfur and brimstone are barely in evidence. There are bishops, but they don’t get special hats. Methodist Central Hall, in London, has a magnificent […]

In this deep, 70-minute conversation, publisher Henry Neufeld sits down with authors and theologians Allan Bevere and Bruce Epperly to explore the vital, often misunderstood concept of “social holiness.” At a time when public discourse is increasingly polarized and human beings are routinely reduced to political abstractions, how does the church live out a concrete, […]

Methodism has always had a primary concern with the person and work of the Holy Spirit. John Wesley’s sermons revolved around a robust pneumatology (theology of the Holy Spirit) with great regularity. Yet over the course of a couple of centuries, the Holy Ghost became somewhat alien to average churchgoers, taking the place of something […]

A group of people in the church I serve is reading through the Bible in a year. In the New Testament section of the schedule we’re following, we’ve made it to Revelation. We recently read through those letters to the seven churches. For a long time, Laodicea held my attention, with its warning about lukewarmness. […]

The Holy Spirit visited us in so many ways during the first regular General Conference of the Global Methodist Church in South Africa. It was a holy and focusing time for our movement. I regret that time did not allow me to chronicle the work day by day on this site. But some of the […]

There is a word we used back in Jackson Parish when something wasn’t exactly crooked, wasn’t exactly backwards, but somehow didn’t seem put together quite right: cattywampus. I’m not sure that’s how one spells it, but I know it’s how one says it. I’ve been looking at the new episcopal areas of the Global Methodist […]

The Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church filed a lawsuit in state district court, seeking to protect regional church property and assets amid ongoing disaffiliation disputes. According to court filings obtained from the Dallas County District Clerk’s office, the regional church body is asking the judiciary to clarify property trusts under church polity […]

For the last 11 days, I’ve been in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the General Conference of The Global Methodist Church (GMC). It has been a whirlwind of 18-hour days, little sleep, and hard work. I was privileged to serve as the chair of the Worship Subcommittee of the General Conference Commission. The team and I […]