I made an error when I listed my ordination succession a few weeks ago. I was ordained by Earle Wilson and he was ordained by William Neff. I had thought that Neff was ordained by early Pilgrim leader, Seth Rees, but upon further investigation, he was actually ordained by Winfred Cox. Thus, my ordination line takes a fortunate turn. It was a struggle reconciling Rees anyway. I had taken a leap saying that he was ordained by the Nazarenes -- when, in fact, he was originally "recorded" (not ordained) by the Quakers, and the Nazarenes claim they never ordained him. I find that hard to believe -- especially when, according to historian, Kostlevy, he participated in ordinations for the Metropolitan Church Association, a forerunner of the Pilgrim Holiness Church. Anyhow -- deepest apologies for leading anyone astray and here is the updated ordination succession for Earle Wilson and anyone ordained by him (including former Wesleyan GS, JoAnne Lyon). I was ordained by Earle Wils
If you connect all the dots you get a picture of Billy Graham. :)
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting map. There are a couple of things we could get from it. 1. They seem to be clustered aroung large population centers. I wonder if there are large population centers that don't have a mega church?
ReplyDelete2. They are clustered together. Does one MC attract another?
I think if you had a map of all the small churches across our country and connected the dots, you'd get a picture of Jesus.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the last census not ONE county in North America is 51% Christian.
ReplyDeleteNot one.