are we mules?

Although spoken to United Methodists, I think we all could stand to consider these challenging words by George Hunter ...

"The people called United Methodists cannot recall who they are, if indeed most of our present members ever knew,” Hunter lamented. “They are no longer rooted in scripture or in any recognizable version of Methodism’s theological vision.”

“Thousands of our churches are analogous to mules – which are creatures that are so genetically compromised that they are incapable of reproduction… Don’t expect much vitality, much less reproduction. There is not much vitality or reproduction anywhere the gospel is in absentia.”

HT:TR