Imagine missionaries from third world Nigeria evangelizing the first world.
The United Methodist Church’s senior leadership of bishops was affronted at the last international conference (General? Jurisdictional?) by the fact that the African attendees were vocal, Bible-based, unafraid and evangelical. Several of the senior (liberal) leaders went so far as to say the African delegates shouldn’t get as big a say as non-Africans. Ashamed of my UMC leadership, but stoked at Maxie Dunnam, Billy Abraham, Rusty Freeman, Ryan Barnett and the others in the renewal/Good News movement for moving intentionally to reclaim the Wesleyan (read “biblical”) traditions of the Methodist Church. We started going south when we joined with the United Brethren in the ‘60s and people are finally realizing it.