“I thought this was surprising if not shocking.”
Not me. My first post about this was to be wary of “strong delusions” that will occur during end times. The first video I saw of the event gave me the creeps.
Now I am not yet willing to throw the baby out with the bath water. But I am going to listen to the after-action reports.
One reason the United Methodist Church failed is that it bent to the emotional fervors of the times, such as feminism, sexual sin, “Journey to Emmaeus” hippie workshops, etc., instead of stressing a study of 1) the Word of God in the Bible, 2) John Wesley’s writings and 3) Wesley’s holiness movement.
Since even before WW2, the Methodist Episcopal church root that would become the UMC had already become a tool of its foreign missionaries bringing back communist “Liberation Theology” via its tithe-funded missionaries to South America and Africa. In the “swingin’ Sixties”, many Methodist seminaries went wild, while many of its traditional Bible-believers left the UMC as it became just another proponent of whatever current Democrat platform.
As funds dried up because of the outflow from the pews, Methodist hospitals, universities and old-age homes were sold off. Now the UMC is a shadow of early Methodism’s intended function: cradle-to-grave support for methodical learning of the Word and methodical extinguishing of personal sins—to allow room for the true Spirit to enter and flourish—”less of me, and more of Thee.”
I have grave concerns that the reconstituted Global Methodist Church will be able to pull up, given that it will continue to ordain women as pastors and bishops.
Yup