The Methodist church is no longer a true Christian church. They've really changed over the years. When my grandparents attended (according to my mother) they preached Salvation and were all born again Christians who were baptised in the river just like Jesus was. I quit attending the Methodist church because of that change. Any church that goes against Israel is going against Jesus. Jesus IS a Jew, and so were all of His disciples
All any of them would have had to do is to read the Bible. It's all spelled out for us.
John 3:3 (New King James Version)
"3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
Could it be any more plain?
The UMC, like the PCUSA, ECUSA, ELCUSA, went lefty starting way back in the sixties and seventies when they started supporting radical Marxist Turd World “liberation” groups and “leaders” like Arafart and Mugabe. Like the World Council of Chuckleheads (alias World Council of Churches), they would not know the Bible if it fell on them. Nothing but radical social clubs.
“Any church that goes against Israel is going against Jesus.”
Supporting Israel’s right to exist and protect its citizens is one thing. But supporting demolishment of homes that belong to people because they’re not Jewish is quite another.
The following is an excerpt from an article by Stephen Sizer (written in 1999 but, according to Sizer and others, it apparently still occurs):
Bishara Awad : Bethlehem Bible College
“I also visited an old friend, Bishara Awad, the Principal of Bethlehem Bible College. Bishara is a father figure, gracious, patient, yet this time, when we met, he was clearly distressed. The story he shared typifies the reasons why peace is so elusive and why many Palestinians are sceptical of ever seeing the Oslo agreement implemented. ‘Tony is a student of the College. He loves the Lord. He is a Christian. All his family are Christians. The family own a piece of land on the outskirts of Bethlehem which they bought in 1924. One day the family went to work on their land and found a bulldozer opening up a new road into their land near the edge of the Neve Daniel settlement. When they tried to stop the bulldozer, the Israeli settlers took Tony’s brother to the police station. He was not released until he signed a document promising never to go back to his land again. This has naturally been very disturbing for the family. It’s not strange for us because it is happening all the time. But this is something near to our hearts and to our students. It happened just two weeks ago. All we could do as a College is have a prayer right on the land. We prayed for peace, for justice. We prayed for the settlers, that the Lord would give them a soft heart, that they would not take someone else’s land.’”
When you stop reading The Bible and start reading Karl Marx instead, you tend to go in strange directions.