The church of Christ is not to be vulnerable to those kinds of opinions. The only opinion that has merit is that of Christ.
I believe you are deluding yourself. How can you deny that the Methodist church is decidedly pro-abortion and pro-homosexual. Besides that, they shill for the Democrat party and socialists and communists.
I don't question where your heart is but they are working against you. I left the ELCA for the exact same reason.
My church must remain faithful to the word of God. My political party is not my church. I would hope that we have a society that reflects the word of God but we don't. I have to settle for the best I can get.
You are wrong about the UMC. It is decidedly against homosexuality, and it’s rules specifically state that homosexuality is INCOMPATIBLE with Christian teaching. Homosexuals are not to be ordained, married, or unioned.
It is now a rape/incest/life of mother position on life after years of struggling in that direction. It rejects any abortion for convenience, partial birth abortion, or born-alive abortion. What remains is turning it fully in the direction of life.
So far as the NCC is concerned, the NCC is dying due to lack of interest.
Of far greater interest are the conferences in Asia and Africa who are decidedly liberal, and who are exploding with evangelism, and who are turning the US UMC on its ear.
Having been an ELCA, you see us in terms of your struggle, and I sympathize with you on that, but our church is going a different path than has the ELCA and the PCUSA.
The bottom line is calling. That is an individual subject, and you’ll just have to trust me on this one. God calls me to remain, and I remain. AS SOON AS God says, “I’m removing their candlestick!” then I’m out of here. All you can do is trust me on that one.