But when Pastors and Bishops like these send missionaries out to heathan Hellholes, their converts will be in a worse spiritual position than if they had never heard this perverted gospel at all.
Can a corrupt tree bear good fruit?
These people don’t send out missionaries who proclaim Christ. They tend to send out water engineers or inoculation experts, and then they call that mission work.
Clean water and vaccines aren’t a bad thing, but a Christian with dysentery is still going to heaven. An animist with a clean bowel isn’t.
They may not have any converts. But you have a church full of obviously interested people just down the road.
The majority of my friends who left my UMC went to a church that does almost no outreach. They send their kids to our church for VBS and big youth events.
We are a conservative UMC. We only had one liberal Sunday School class and it folded.