West Ohio Conference

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West Ohio Conference

• Episcopal Address
• Bishop Bruce R. Ough
• West Ohio Annual Conference
• The United Methodist Church
• June 8, 2009
• Lakeside, Ohio

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• Gratitude!

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• Our Journey
• Toward
• Love in Action

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• We practice the Great Commandment through
  practical and formational disciplines of three
  simple rules
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• We practice the Great Commandment through
  practical and formational disciplines of three
  simple rules
• Do no harm
• Do good
• Stay in love with God

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• Within our United Methodist ethos we state this
  mission
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• Within our United Methodist ethos we state this
  mission
• To make disciples of Jesus Christ for the
  transformation of the world.

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• Gods preferred future for the West Ohio
  Conference is for every congregation to be
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• Gods preferred future for the West Ohio
  Conference is for every congregation to be
• A healthy, growing, spiritually vital,
  risk-taking center for making disciples of Jesus
  Christ for the transformation of the world.

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• The five fruitful practices are
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• The five fruitful practices are
• Radical hospitality
• Passionate worship
• Faith-forming relationships
• Risk-taking service
• Extravagant generosity

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• These six vision pathways are
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• These six vision pathways are
• Leadership excellence
• New venues for ministry
• Strengthening existing churches
• Mission partnerships
• Financial resource development
• Missional Alignment

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• The Four Areas of Love in Action focus are
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• The Four Areas of Love in Action focus are
• Developing principled Christian leaders for the
  church and the world
• Creating new places for new people and renewing
  existing congregations
• Engaging in ministry with the poor
• Stamping out the killer diseases of poverty by
  improving health globally.

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• Bishop We are the people of the United
• Methodist Church. Our one
  mission is
• People Making disciples of Jesus
• Christ for the transformation of
• the world.
• Bishop We live by two kinds of holiness.
• People Personal holiness and social
• holiness

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• Bishop We follow three simple rules.
• People Do no harm, do good and stay
• in love with God.
• Bishop We work in four areas of focus.
• People Developing new leaders
• creating places for new people
• eliminating poverty and
• improving health globally.

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Is the United Methodist Church Like the Big Three?
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Is the United Methodist Church Like the Big Three?
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• We cannot deal with the theme
• of Developing Leaders
• apart from our context.

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Welcome to the New World
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Welcome to the New World
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• 80 are stressed about personal finances
• 50 are worried about providing for their family
• 56 are concerned about job stability
• 60 reported feeling angry
• 52 reported laying awake at night

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Welcome to the New World
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• Is the United Methodist Church Like the Big
  Three?
• Scott Parrish, Director of the Augusta State
  University Wesley Foundation

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Reign of God Urgency
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• There has never been a better or more critical
  time to be the Church!

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Reign of God Urgency
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• The world might be overwhelmed by a spirit of
  fear and anxiety, but we are recipients and
  bearers of the Holy Spirit!

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Reign of God Urgency
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• The world may be trapped in a web of insecurity
  and uncertainty, but we are in the world to give
  an accounting of the hope that is in us.
• 1 Peter 315

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Reign of God Urgency
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• The world may be consumed by a search for
  financial security, but we follow a Lord who gave
  all he had and all he was over to Gods disposal.

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Reign of God Urgency
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• The world may be retreating from addressing the
  well-being of Gods people and Gods creation,
  but we are called to live the United Methodist
  way of doing no harm, doing good, and staying in
  love with God.

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Harbingers of Hope
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• The conference abounds with evidence that we are
  harbingers of hope.

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• The West Ohio Conference leads the entire United
  Methodist Church in giving to the Advance

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• Last year, our Love First Miracle Offering ended
  up raising 513,633.

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Harbingers of Hope
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• 63 congregations have already paid 100 of their
  2009 apportionments.

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• Christ UMC in Kettering moved forward and
  launched a second campus.

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• Greenville Evangelical UMC and St. Mary's Wayne
  Street UMC are moving forward with major facility
  and ministry expansion projects.

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• The partnership between Ginghamsburg UMC and the
  Fort McKinley congregation in Dayton has produced
  a revitalized ministry campus that has grown from
  40 to nearly 400 in worship and is feeding
  hundreds of people every week

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• Ginghamsburg UMC and the Fort McKinley
  congregation in Dayton have produced a
  revitalized ministry campus that has grown from
  40 to nearly 400 in worship and is feeding
  hundreds of people every week.

What would a great church look like in this
neighborhood?
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• The Nation Chapel congregation is seeking to
  build a community care center for the expansion
  of their Joy of Sharing Pantry and to launch a
  Celebrate Recovery Ministry.

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• In 2008, 97 of our churches were Acts 2
  Congregations.

This is a significant increase of 2 or 22
congregations over 2007.
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• Tomorrow morning, when we receive our Love First
  Miracle Offering, the Coburn UMC will bring 100
  school kits.

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• Bishop We may be surrounded and battered
• by troubles,
• People but we are not demoralized.
• Bishop We may not be sure what to do,
• People but we know that God knows what
• to do.

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• Bishop We may be spiritually terrorized,
• People but God hasnt left our side.
• Bishop We may be thrown down,
• People but we will not be broken.
• 2 Corinthians 48-9 (The Message)

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Celebrate Whats Rightwith the
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Celebrate Whats Rightwith the World
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• Those of us in this very room are the leaders we
  have been waiting for.

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Celebrate Whats Rightwith the World
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• Watch and listen for the leadership traits that
  are especially important in challenging times.
  Listen and watch for the elements of Love in
  Action leadership

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Believe It and Youll See It
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• Love in Action leaders see a world of
  possibilities, because they believe it.

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Recognize Abundance
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• Love in Action leaders recognize abundance and
  see assets everywhere.

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Look for Possibilities
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• Love in Action leaders look for possibilities to
  engage in Christs mission.

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Unleash Your Energy to Fix Whats Wrong
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• Love in Action leaders unleash their energy to
  fix whats wrong.

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Ride the Changes
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• Love in Action leaders ride the changes they
  even pray for change.

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Take Yourself to the Edge
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• Love in Action leaders are willing to take
  themselves to the edge.

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Be Your Best for the World
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• Love in Action leaders seek to be the best for
  the world.

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Why should we sit hereuntil we die?
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Why should we sit hereuntil we die?
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• This is the key leadership question for our time
  and circumstance.

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• The reign of God is here, right here, right now.
• If we really believe it, we will see it, we will
  seek it, we will live it, we will become it.
• We will not sit here until we die!
• We will Rethink Church!

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Address Institutional Obesity
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Address Institutional Obesity
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• What is essential to the mission of making
  disciples for the transformation of the world and
  what is non-essential?

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Reassess and Reorder the Churchs Connectional
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Reassess and Reorder the Churchs Connectional
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• The United Methodist Church is going to be
  reordered. The questions is whether it will be
  done thoughtfully and prayerfully, or whether it
  will be done in a careless, panicked, haphazard
  response to a new, emerging missional context.

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Come Home to the Core of our Wesleyan Faith
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Come Home to the Core of our Wesleyan Faith
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• This is the time to be the movement of Gods
  transforming love and grace.
• This is the best of times to teach and proclaim
  and live the Love First foundation to love God
  and to love neighbor.

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Come Home to the Core of our Wesleyan Faith
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• This is the best of times to be a holiness people
  a people who live personal holiness and social
  holiness.
• This is the best of times to teach and live our
  unique United Methodist Way do no harm, do
  good, and stay in love with God.

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Come Home to the Core of our Wesleyan Faith
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• This is the best of times to teach and live as
  true Wesleyan stewards stewards who earn all we
  can, save all we can and give all we can.

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Engage the Mission
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• These four focus areas are the opportunity God is
  giving the church to engage people where they are
  hopeful and where they are hurting.

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Engage the Mission
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• Four Focus Areas
• Developing leaders

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Engage the Mission
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• Four Focus Areas
• Developing leaders
• Creating new places for new people

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Engage the Mission
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• Four Focus Areas
• Developing leaders
• Creating new places for new people
• Eliminating poverty

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Engage the Mission
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• Four Focus Areas
• Developing leaders
• Creating new places for new people
• Eliminating poverty
• Improving health globally

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We Seemed Like Grasshoppers
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Joshua and Caleb focused on the size of their God
rather than the size of the giants in the land.
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Trusting God is the first key to overcoming fear.
Trusting God is the first and foundational key to
effective spiritual leadership.
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Friends, what will it be
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Giants or Gratitude?
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Lets Dance!
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