CNLP 630 | Adam Hamilton on What United Methodists Are Learning About Denominational Divorce Over LGBTQ, On Building a Church Whose Growth is 66% UnChurched People, and on Fusing the Best in the Evangelical and Mainline Traditions
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
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Summary
Adam Hamilton, pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in America, returns to the podcast to share field notes for other denominations and churches on what the United Methodists are learning about denominational divorce over LGBTQ.
Plus, Adam discusses how to fuse the best of the evangelical and mainline traditions when leading a church and how his church consistently sees its growth come from 66% unchurched people.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | In an all church gathering, we have 1,600 of our people there for a Monday night meeting |
| 0:07.0 | just to say, you know, we're going to talk about this and where the denominations going. |
| 0:11.0 | And I'm committed to being a church for people who are more traditional on marriage and people who are more inclusive on marriage. |
| 0:17.0 | And so, but let's see where you're at. |
| 0:20.0 | And we surveyed the people and it was, I'm making this up but it's not far off from this. |
| 0:25.2 | I had 3% of the people who were progressive and said I'm going to leave I don't I can't stay in a |
| 0:31.5 | church where everybody doesn't hold the same view that I hold. |
| 0:34.0 | That was 3%. I had 3% who said, I'm traditional in marriage and I can't stay in a church that's not going to hold my view of, |
| 0:40.8 | you know, uphold my view. Then we had, so that's 6%, then we had 73% who said, I'm more |
| 0:49.0 | progressive on marriage, but I understand why my friends have more traditional views and I want to be in a |
| 0:53.2 | church with them and 23% of our people said I'm more traditional on marriage |
| 0:59.3 | but I understand why some are more progressive and I want to be in a church with them. |
| 1:04.4 | And so what we found was that 90 some percent of the people said I'm okay being in a church |
| 1:09.3 | with people a different. Welcome to the Cary New Hoff Leadership Podcast. It's Cary here and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 1:21.0 | Man, I love podcast and I love the fact that you are joining us for this one. If you're new, welcome. Really glad to have you today. We're going to sit down with Adam Hamilton and this is a sensitive subject. We have got some field notes for you for other denominations on churches |
| 1:36.0 | about what United Methodists are learning about denominational divorce over |
| 1:41.0 | LGBTQ. Yeah, this is going to be a bit of a sensitive |
| 1:45.8 | episode and I think Adam is a great person to be able to bring this |
| 1:50.1 | conversation to us and we're also going to talk about building a church whose |
| 1:54.2 | growth is 66% unchurched people and this is happening in a mainline context |
| 1:59.4 | which is really really fascinating. Today's episode is brought to you by Sub splash and |
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