The UMC way is to talk about “all we are doing” much like a Kiwanis club. All outreach has to be faith-free.
We are open-minded EXCEPT when people disagree with the liberal policies of the church. Then we are “driving people away”.
I was in an Emmaus meeting and they asked if I wanted to hold teaming at my church. My response was “It may not be my church by then”. Jaws dropped.
>>The UMC way is to talk about “all we are doing” much like a Kiwanis club. All outreach has to be faith-free.
Yep. I’ve been told that by liberal pastors. We don’t want to scare them away by evangelizing when we should be “helping” them. All I wanted to do was put a card with a bible verse in a bag lunch.
>>We are open-minded EXCEPT when people disagree with the liberal policies of the church. Then we are “driving people away”.
I was always seeking a clear statement of what we believe on a certain topic. The answer would be liberal drivel or a reminder that “we aren’t a confessional church, so what do you think it means”. I thought a confessional church was a bad thing until I read Metaxxas’ biography of Bonhoeffer and found out that the confessing church is the one that resists being a weather vane in the hurricane of political and societal pressure.
>>I was in an Emmaus meeting and they asked if I wanted to hold teaming at my church. My response was “It may not be my church by then”. Jaws dropped.
Decolores! I still group with some Methodists, but I am a Presbyterian (PCA, not PCUSA) now.