Agenda Volume 3 - Methodist Conference

57. The Fruitful Field Project
this estimate of transitional and
implementation costs. Transitional
and implementation expenditure will
be met from the Fund for Training,
which contains sufficient cash funds
to meet these costs.
Section M: Conclusion
275 This report has necessarily touched
on many aspects of formation,
learning, training, theological
education, scholarship, research
and development within the life
of the Methodist Church. It has
recorded the great deal of work
and many processes involving
dedicated committees and very
many other Methodists. It brings
recommendations to this Conference
and outlines the reasoning and
the discernment leading to the
recommendations, all offered in an
attitude of responsibility and prayer.
It closes as it began, setting the
work requested by the Conference
and undertaken by the Committee
within the wider and more significant
call of God to those who desire to be
disciples of the Lord Jesus and who
are invited to partner in the mission
of God in a time of change, challenge
and potential.
276 To other believers in Christ, long ago,
in Ephesus, was written a reminder
about the quintessential purpose of
the Christian ministry in which we
all share – a reminder also of the
source and the fulfilment of the gifts
with which we are all richly blessed.
For the end of all our ardent, zealous
striving is to live together within the
breadth and length and depth and
height of Jesus Christ, whose vast
love is ours to know and share.
The gifts he gave were that
some would be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists,
some pastors and teachers, to
equip the saints for the work of
ministry, for building up the body
of Christ, until all of us come to
the unity of the faith and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, to
maturity, to the measure of the
full stature of Christ.
Ephesians 4:11-13 (NRSV)
***RESOLUTIONS
57/1. The Conference receives the report.
57/2. The Conference adopts paragraphs 115-128.3 of section G (“A Discipleship and
Ministries Learning Network”).
57/3. The Conference adopts section H (“A Team of Expert Staff”).
57/4. The Conference adopts sections I and J (“Spaces” and “Centres”).
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