These weren’t Grace Livingstone Hill’s Methodists anymore.
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"8. For United Methodist congregations to advocate at the local and national level for laws that prevent or reduce gun violence. Some of those measures include: • Universal background checks on all gun purchases • Ratification of the Arms Trade Treaty • Ensuring all guns are sold through licensed gun retailers • Prohibiting all individuals convicted of violent crimes from purchasing a gun for a fixed time period • Prohibiting all individuals under restraining order due to threat of violence from purchasing a gun • Prohibiting persons with serious mental illness, who pose a danger to themselves and their communities, from purchasing a gun • Ensuring greater access to services for those suffering from mental illness • Establishing a minimum age of 21 years for a gun purchase or possession • Banning large-capacity ammunition magazines and weapons designed to fire multiple rounds each time the trigger is pulled • Promoting new technologies to aid law-enforcement agencies to trace crime guns and promote public safety.
ADOPTED 2016"
“And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Rev. 18:4
He’s right about this. No matter what conservative Methodists end up calling themselves or how numerous they are (it will be substantial), this is a good move. The “progressive” side is glorified Unitarianism. Good riddance to them.
I’ve moved on . . . to think that they can’t settle on Biblical condemnations of abortion and sodomy is an outrage.
The Anglican ministers who founded your denomination in the 18th-century (e.g., John Wesley and George Whitefield) had a very clear understanding of the Gospel.Methodist / former Methodist ping!The early Methodists were in complete agreement with Anglicans, Presbyterians, and Lutherans over the doctrine of Justification, but they felt that the doctrine of Sanctification had been neglected...
Wesley saw Justification as an instantaneous experience of the new birth (or regeneration) and Sanctification as the process of becoming more holy.
As Wesley preached, he offered people not only the hope of immediate forgiveness of sin, but also the hope of gradually learning to sin less. This is “traditional methodism” and it has changed millions of lives for the better.