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Much Agreement. Summing up the agreement, Methodist Theologian Albert Outler suggested that the denominations had "passed from handholding to an engagement." In four days of debate, the delegates...
...theme of the anniversary gathering was "Forever Beginning"-a reminder that there is no room for complacency or conservatism in the richest and second-largest (10,331,574 members*) U.S. Protestant church. Speaker after speaker urged the Methodist delegates to gear up for the new challenges facing the church-ecumenism, equality, urban changes...
Hope & Confidence. "Methodist theology," said Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles (TIME cover, May 8, 1964) in his keynote address, "has always been shot through and through with hope and confidence." At the convention, the official mood was traditional Methodist meliorism. But in the corridors, and around the nation, young Methodist clergymen are peering into the future with some concern, in the belief that their church may not be flexible enough to conquer its forthcoming challenges...
...Methodism's approach to ethics-whether to hold fast to the belief that the business of the church is solely with individual piety or face up to the problem of man in society. "People don't see that making human life human is part of salvation," says Methodist Minister Tex Sample of the Massachusetts Council of Churches. "They've got the idea that salvation is a kind of good feeling between your liver and your gall bladder." Long Beach Pastor Paul Woudenberg hoots that the typical renewal preacher "heads into a social program as an excuse...
...result of this break with the old guard is not creative tension between two views of the church but mutual incomprehension. "We just choose up sides and hate each other," he says. Bishop Richard Raines of Indianapolis, who at a youthful-spirited 67 is the new president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, believes that the age of 50 is the usual dividing line. Many older members "want the church to be what it was and a reminder to them of their secure childhoods. They don't want disturbing questions raised on Sunday mornings...