My MIL was a multi descendent Methodist, and her ancestors helped to build and establish the Methodist Church in her midwest home town.
After a lifetime of church attendance and generous donations of time, treasure and talent, She moved to live to a retirement home, and she never had a Methodist Minister visit her at her retirement home for over 12 years.
She still attended her church on a regular basis. Any concern/pastoral actions stopped at the church doors when she left a service to go back to her retirement home.
Then, a series of non caring and non believing pastors including homosexuals drove her away from her church. Their so called sermons were PC speeches not sermons. These non believing/caring pastors drove away many life long members, like her.
So, she stopped going to the church of her ancestors, and the church where she raised her children, who were married in that church.
She changed her will re her funeral requests. Instead of using the Methodist Church, she requested her funeral be held in at funeral home a few miles away. She requested that a local Baptist preacher deliver her eulogy. There was standing room only at at the large chapel at the funeral home.
Later, at the church reception hall, her post funeral reception could not hold everyone, and the crowd flowed over in to the patio/garden area. One of her DIL’s said that was the last big function in the church. At her request, the pastor at that time was told not to bother coming to the funeral and reception.
The church closed about a year later as attendance got so low, they could not afford to keep it open.
That is a sad story, Dave, and it hurts old time Methodists to hear it. But it is a story that in similar versions exists across this country.
The doors closed as you write above, and that that's because the homosexualist message MUST jettison the bible in some fashion to arrive at their conclusions.
And if you can jettison it in one place, then you can jettison it in others....to include the REAL resurrection.
And why be a Christian if there is no resurrection, no bible, no Word of God?
Might as well be in the Kiwanis club.