Posted on 08/29/2018 8:15:56 AM PDT by Morgana
June issue of “Lifewatch”
https://www.lifewatch.org/uploads/9/9/6/3/99632932/lifewatch_newsletter_-_june_2018.pdf
The Methodist Church has lost its way.
?? What is happening in the Methodist Church?
This is NOT the Methodist church my Granny attended!!!
I suppose that’s why my local Methodist church is now a Buddhist temple.
So “Reproductive Health” means terminating the process of reproduction. Orwellian.
I know Methodist churches in my area that’s had to close and consolidate. They try to say members moved away but I know the real reason. Same as the schools, no people to join since Roe vs Wade passed they all DEAD! No new members to join. What did people think would happen long term if you killed all the babies? No they only thinking short term and how it made their lives easier in the here and now.
The Bible talks about people being deceived and going after things that tickle their ears. It should not come as a surprise. But the Methodist Church, as well as some other “mainline churches”, have stopped being a Christian church when they teach things that go against God’s Word.
I’m willing to bet my Q decoder ring that Methodists oppose the death penalty.
UMC / ex-Methodist ping!
Time to yank their tax-exempt status, as they can no longer make any claim to be "Christian"
Since they look on the presence of a fetus as a foreign object in their bodies, it makes sense to consider removing it as a health procedure.
Since the birth of The United Methodist Church in 1968, the Social Principles’ paragraph on abortion has been contested. The 1972 paragraph stated: “We support the removal of abortion from the criminal code, placing it instead under laws relating to other procedures of standard medical practice. A decision concerning abortion should be made only after thorough and thoughtful consideration by the parties involved, with medical and pastoral counsel.”
Looks like the "United Methodist Church" never really had its way straight in the first place.
I said the same thing, my grandmother was a Methodist.
I don’t know why so many are caving on abortion, if you talk to the young women they are against abortion. The twenty somethings I am around are totally against all abortion, no ifs ands or buts, and they openly call it murder. I have several on my social media and they are very outspoken against abortion.
It seems to me the tide is turning against abortion, yet religions now seem willing to accept it? What is up with that? Technology has put the pro abortion mantra of “just a clump of cells” into the fiction category- most have seen high quality early ultrasounds, obviously a baby.
Abortion is murder. No religious group should condone it. How hard is that?
Donating to the United Methodist church is donating to abortion lobbyists. The UM’s lobbyist department (General Board of Church and Society) has been on the baby-butchering side of just about every abortion debate you can remember for the past 4+ decades. If you hate sex trafficking and think an abortion clinic in your state ought to notify the police and/or the parents of a 13 year old when her 40-year old “boyfriend” brings her into the clinic, too bad for her if the state didn’t put in place parent notification laws. The UM church fought for her “reproductive rights” in your state and won.
Same for abortion in Obamacare, abortion done in military hospitals, partial-birth abortion, etc. Same for LGBTQWERTY “rights”. When the Christian baker had to go all the way to the Supreme Court to keep from being punished for not making a poop sex cake, he was fighting “friends of the court” briefs filed by the UM church.
Your decoder ring is safe.
“The United Methodist Church maintains a strong stand against capital punishment as exemplified in the Book of Discipline, ... When governments implement the death penalty (capital punishment), then the life of the convicted person is devalued and all possibility of change in that person’s life ends.”
https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/node/1707
I’m sick to my very soul. What has become of my beloved Church???
The Bible talks about people being deceived and going after things that tickle their ears.
Exo 32:5 Aaron saw how excited the people were, so he built an altar in front of the calf. Then he announced, “Tomorrow will be a festival to the LORD!”
I encourage all to read the above in context.
Poor old Aaron, all the people did was complain. No life in the “church” it was dead. Finally some excitement in the people (social justice), he thinks he can turn that in the right direction by building an alter to the LORD (capital L, capital O, capital R, capital D - so we know the intention) in front of it.
Exo 32:24 So I told them, ‘Whoever has gold jewelry, take it off.’ When they brought it to me, I simply threw it into the fire—and out came this calf!”
sound like the excuses of RC and P leadership? Aarons human nature kicks in . None of us are exempt.
Now the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would say:
Exo 32:20 He took the calf they had made and burned it. Then he ground it into powder, threw it into the water, and forced the people to drink it.
You are going to eat this god and shit him out (pardon my french). Putting the alter in front of the abomination didn’t work.
Now God spoke to Aaron directly many times and Aaron led his people astray. So much for infallibility of church leadership. Where does that leave us?
On a humorous note, I think Moses knew that if he threw it in the stream some would go pan it out to recover it, but the Israelites wouldn’t go get it out of the outhouse, at least not right away...…………………………...
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