Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Schnase Quotes from Seven Levers


I am going to run a series of quotes from Bishop Robert Schnase book on UMC Conferences -- Seven Levers:  Missional Strategies for Conferences, Abingdon Press, Nashville, 2014.  The list will grow as I read through the book.  
  • [Discussing a new vision for the Missouri Conference.]  Nothing was borrowed wholesale from others, nothing was entirely original, nothing was top down, nothing was rushed, and nothing was accidental . . . nothing remained entirely the same.  (Page 28)
  • John Wesley . . . created conference to unite, energize, strengthen , and empower faith communities and resource them with leadership. (Page 30)
  • Fear distorts vision, and lack of communication feeds fear.  (Page 49)
  • [The Missouri Conference] identified two activities that the conference must perform in an exemplary fashion or else the conference fails in its mission -- pastoral excellence and congregational excellence. (Page 117). (Shaw notes:  Our Rocky Mountain Conference Imagine Team has been focusing on competency as the single word to describe both of these.)


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