When/If this happens, I leave the Methodist Church.
I really don’t have a problem with homosexuality per se, but I refuse to have my children be taught in church that it is “normal” rather than a perversion.
Every major American church that has taken steps towards liberalization on sexual issues has seen a steep decline in membership.
>>When/If this happens, I leave the Methodist Church.
I came home from Florida Annual Conference last June and resigned from the UMC the next week. Even if the gays don’t win at GC 2016, the damage they will do will just continue until the UMC goes the way of the TEC, ELCA, and PCUSA.
To be honest, the weakness of a non-confessional church will not survive the siege that is being conducted by the Progressive/homosexual/communist agenda in this country. The evil I saw at last year’s AC convinced me that Reformed theology is correct and some people are just too depraved to be saved, but they sure can pretend to be Christians—and many of them faked it all the way through seminary and ordination and became UMC Elders.
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!
Save yourself the trouble and leave now. If you truly want to follow Wesley's teaching, go Wesleyan. Otherwise, go LCMS, PCA, SBC, or AG. (I went LCMS 26 years ago and never looked back; I happen to agree with its theological doctrine more than the others, but all have the same social doctrine, and all of them present Jesus as the only way to the Father.)
My sympathies to the still conservative Methodists out there in the UMC
What a contradiction.
Biblical Christians in the UMC have defeated this again and again over many years. It will probably be defeated again.