Inspired by the recent piece by my colleague, Chelsen Vicari, on 10 Things Evangelicals Can Be Thankful For in 2014, I decided that we evangelical members of the United Methodist Church could use our own list.
There have certainly been a lot of major disappointments and challenges in our denomination in 2014, from the scourge of Ebola in much of our global church to ongoing U.S. membership decline to the any-means-necessary antics of the pastorally harmful “disobedience” movement to some high-profile betrayals by bishops and other denominational officials.
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