Bishop Lloyd Knox took a future bishop under his wing.
Bishop Jonathan Holston now holds an office once held by his mentor, Bishop Lloyd Knox, whose photo hangs on the wall at the United Methodist Center on the Birmingham-Southern College campus. Knox led the North Alabama Conference from 1984-92, after an earlier career as a missionary in Cuba and Argentina. Knox, who died in 2014 at 85, also served as bishop of North Georgia from 1992-96, and that’s where Holston met him.
“When I got back, he was in my office again. You know what he said? ‘I see you made it home.’ What he was teaching me was that the world was a mission. The day of the institutional church had passed. In addition to foreign missions, which included disaster relief, such as responding to Hurricane Andrew. “We’d go to deal with floods, and fires and deal with people’s lives. I met them in parking lots and delivered checks to them from good people in Methodist churches who wanted to make sure they had help.”
“She said, ‘Dad, I don’t know if I’m going to make it.’ I said, Brittany, just get in the tub and cover yourself over. You’ll make it.’ We were able to get in contact with her later and she says, ‘Dad, I walked out to one half of my apartment, and it was if nothing happened. I looked at the other side and it was gone.’ Tuscaloosa First was the church that invited her in, along with others.
Churches should not only be measured in terms of attendance alone but by effective ministry to their communities, he said. “That’s who are when we’re the church,” he said. “Not when we’re arguing with one another, but when we’re in mission and ministry with one another. That’s making disciples. That’s transforming the world.”“Then you exit to go out in the community to be the best expression of Jesus Christ,” Holston said. “You may be the best scripture that they read, by your actions.”“Saturday in the South is football,” Holston said. “A lot of people worshipped this past Saturday in Tuscaloosa.
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