One Million Methodists!
Posted on 06/02/2024 4:02:04 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
The United Methodist Church in the Ivory Coast voted on May 28 to exit the denomination in response to the church’s decision to approve gay pastors and same-sex marriage at its governing General Conference earlier this month.
In 2022, this conference reportedly had over 1.2 million members. So, its departure means over one tenth of United Methodism has—in one day—left the denomination.
“For reasons of conscience before God and His word, the supreme authority in matters of faith and life,” the annual conference of the United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast (EMUCI, Eglise Méthodiste Unie Côte d’Ivoire), gathered for an extraordinary session on May 28 in Abidjan, and decided “to leave the United Methodist Church denomination.”
The decision follows the early May 3 vote at the United Methodist Church General Conference in the United States to lift the ban on ordaining gay pastors and officiating same-sex marriages.
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Officially I’m still a Methodist, but I’ve been attending a Calvary Baptist Church for the last 2 weeks, and I can’t see myself going back to the Methodist Church.
Officially, you’re a Christian who happens to be part of the Methodist denomination and currently attends a Baptist Church.
For this denomination, ordination of female elders—in violation of clear biblical teaching—started way back in the late 1950s. It’s been downhill ever since. They have compromised themselves into outright rebellion against the Lord.
1 Corinthians 5:11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.
“Officially I’m still a Methodist, but I’ve been attending a Calvary Baptist Church for the last 2 weeks, and I can’t see myself going back to the Methodist Church.”
Officially, I’m still a Baptist, but we’ve been attending a PCA (NOT PCUSA!) Presbyterian Church for a couple of months. I can’t see myself going back to a Baptist church (in this area) any time soon.
The pervs don’t care if they corrupt or destroy an institution. They’re happy either way.
Destroying it is the point.
There are several small Methodist churches in this corner of Missouri. All but one left the denomination. The one left is old, small and dying.
Little country church near me that left the Faggotists has doubled the size of its parking lot since
Precisely! The feminization of the ministry of the Church has led congregations to celebrate diversity over morality as though one’s differences were a moral imperative.
The foolish notion that we must welcome everyone and celebrate their self defined (and self deified) characteristics denies the judgement of God.
“Surely He did not mean you will die!” The words of Satan still speak convincingly to the spirit of Eve.
Jezebel reigns supreme in her new church.
A female Bishop has established her spiritual prowess by converting her pastor husband into a woman. Miracles abound.
Why did it take them so long?
That is Sodomy versus non-Sodomy. I spell Sodomy with a capital-S because it is the name of a religion.
And Africans are not buying it.
Good question!
Apostates are doubly dead. I think that’s why we are warned to not even sit down to eat (associate?) with them. There is no similar warning against associating with unbelievers. Some apostates may be restored and still rescued from the flames, but scriptural treatment of fallen Christians is pretty grim.
Jude 1:4 “…They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.”
Jude 1:2 “These people are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves. They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted—twice dead.”
Jude 1:22-23 “And indeed, have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; and to still others show mercy tempered with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh.”
To my shame, there was a time when I also grieved the Holy Spirit but was restored by a brother in Christ. Some people who once believed but fell away can still be brought to repentance while they live, but they must be removed from the body of believers until they repent.
The big religious divide of the present cuts across denominational lines.
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Yes, parishioners are adrift now in every denomination, searching for a place they can come together and worship Biblical truths. Instead of caring for and feeding the flock of Christians with the Holy Word, main stay denominations have joined the blasphemes dark side, a place where true Christian believers want nothing to do with.
I agree.
I was persecuted by the United Methodist female chaplain during my time in the military when I was a chapel manager, and all because I was Free Methodist, so this one hits home.
That may not be the last African conference of the United Methodist Church to vote to leave.
Many Christians outside the U.S. received their Christianity from much older classes of Christian missionaries that still held closer to traditional biblical understandings, and those understandings continued as those places established their own local church conferences.
Besides the Ivory Coast Methodist Conference, there are about 4 million more United Methodist congregants in other African countries and millions more in other Methodist denominations outside the United Methodist Church.
I can imgaine some in Africa who leave the United Methodist Church will join the newsly forming Global Methodist Church, which is being put together the “traditionalist” congregations that have been leaving the United Methodist Church the past few years, and some will join with other traditional Methodist denominations that have a good presence in Africa.
I see this process with the United Methodist Church and those leaving it as part of the separating of the wheat from the chaff. The chaff are gloating right now, but won’t be gloating in time.
Mexican Methodists I am sure will follow suit.
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