New Posts For Thread: UUA Strategic Plan for Professional Ministrieshttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_MinistriesWhat are your Thoughts? www.uua.org/documents/mpl/110406_sppm.pd...Oh, sorry for misunderstanding. When you mentioned UCC's being more humble, I mistakenly understood you to be comparing the two denominations. My wrong!!Maybe I should try the UCC myself. Humility would be a stark contrast.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=505517693#505517693Oh, sorry for misunderstanding. When you mentioned UCC's being more humble, I mistakenly understood you to be comparing the two denominations. My wrong!!Maybe I should try the UCC myself. Humility would be a stark contrast.Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:57:42 -0500"They" refers to individaual UUs about their own beliefs and actions, not to the UU denomination.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=505517051#505517051"They" refers to individaual UUs about their own beliefs and actions, not to the UU denomination.Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:45:09 -0500Except, I think we're talking about UU selfishness on different levels, Jamlawken. Most denominations and sects of any faith operate from a "We're right, and everybody else isn't" basis. UU's haven't any monopoly on that.  I'm speaking more about shttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=505513805#505513805Except, I think we're talking about UU selfishness on different levels, Jamlawken. Most denominations and sects of any faith operate from a "We're right, and everybody else isn't" basis. UU's haven't any monopoly on that.  I'm speaking more about sFri, 19 Aug 2011 13:43:35 -0500They decided that they were the only ones who had the right answers and did the right things. After 18 years I left UU to join UCC to be with folk who are humble about what they believe and do. As it says in Matthew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, fhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=505511427#505511427They decided that they were the only ones who had the right answers and did the right things. After 18 years I left UU to join UCC to be with folk who are humble about what they believe and do. As it says in Matthew 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, fFri, 19 Aug 2011 12:52:37 -0500Yanno, I think RevD has identified on the UU support board what I see as a key problem in UUism--a lack of unity and harmony among all UU's. I've seen too much of that lack at the church level. UU's are so busy trying not to offend anyone and so touhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=505506399#505506399Yanno, I think RevD has identified on the UU support board what I see as a key problem in UUism--a lack of unity and harmony among all UU's. I've seen too much of that lack at the church level. UU's are so busy trying not to offend anyone and so touFri, 19 Aug 2011 10:45:54 -0500However, the central problem remains: How are you going to attract the financially and spiritually needy when the "message" of UUism is merely do-it-yourself? What happens to those at wit's end is that they go to churches that give them more assuranchttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=505505387#505505387However, the central problem remains: How are you going to attract the financially and spiritually needy when the "message" of UUism is merely do-it-yourself? What happens to those at wit's end is that they go to churches that give them more assurancFri, 19 Aug 2011 10:22:09 -0500You could be right i don't see how you can grow by doing nothing.http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=505496375#505496375You could be right i don't see how you can grow by doing nothing.Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:52:12 -0500Hmm. Most of that seemed to me to be the usual corporate analyzing everything to death instead of doing anything meaningful. The only portion that gives me hope they're moving in a productive direction--maybe--is the final one, "Open Questions." Therhttp://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=505493947#505493947Hmm. Most of that seemed to me to be the usual corporate analyzing everything to death instead of doing anything meaningful. The only portion that gives me hope they're moving in a productive direction--maybe--is the final one, "Open Questions." TherFri, 19 Aug 2011 03:57:04 -0500What are your Thoughts? www.uua.org/documents/mpl/110406_sppm.pd...http://community.beliefnet.com/go/thread/view/43851/27420977/UUA_Strategic_Plan_for_Professional_Ministries?post_id=491884709#491884709What are your Thoughts? www.uua.org/documents/mpl/110406_sppm.pd...Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:16:03 -0500