[CARepubGal]

I see a bit of the Great Commission there but not a word about fellowshipping. On a more mundane level, If you do fellowship with Mormons (JW's won't get involved at all), then why not add Wiccan priestesses, Satanists, Vodoun practicioners and all manner of different beliefs in the name of diversity to the acceptable list? You could very easily twist the BoD's admonitions and make that work if you were so inclined. That is a bad road to go down and is what the Confessing Churches seem to be trying to stop. Xzins? Am I correct?

[Revelation 911]

if you were so inclined.

youre quibbling over degrees of separation

are they both lost....yes

Is the mormon roughly hardwired for the program.....yes

Is the wiccan.......no

The big giggle in free methodism is that RC make fine converts, as they are already wired

all it takes is that epiphany / rebirth

I say that with no derision of course

[Vernon]

On a more mundane level, If you do fellowship with Mormons (JW's won't get involved at all), then why not add Wiccan priestesses, Satanists, Vodoun practicioners and all manner of different beliefs in the name of diversity to the acceptable list? You could very easily twist the BoD's admonitions and make that work if you were so inclined. That is a bad road to go down and is what the Confessing Churches seem to be trying to stop.

Sorry, but that does not deserve an answer. This has long ago reached the point of pure absurdity in an effort to put somebody down, and I will not be part of it.

[Revelation 911]

that said - I wouldnt be comfortable in "fellowship" with either

[P-Marlowe]

?If you do fellowship with Mormons (JW's won't get involved at all)...

Neither will committed Mormons. Only Jack Mormons are going to go and "fellowship" with methodists and Jack Mormons aren't usually advocating and evangelizing LDS hereseis, as they don't believe most of the LDS doctrines anyway. Any Mormon that "fellowships" with Methodists is bound to have his Temple ticket revoked.

[xzins]

We labor together with the help of God toward the salvation, health, and peace of all people. In respectful conversations and in practical cooperation, we confess our Christian faith and strive to display the manner in which Jesus Christ is the life and hope of the world.

This is a missions statement.

Therefore, I agree that the Methodist church is not synchretistic with other religions. CaRep is correct.

As a missions statement, it is saying that one cannot enter a missions field with foreign religions and treat the people like dirt and expect them to respond to Christ. I agree with that.

As a Christian in a buddhist culture, I could both treat the people with respect and dignity AND believe them to be lost and their religion to be wrong.