[P-Marlowe]

“In the four decades I’ve been an ordained leader in the UMC, we have lost 30 percent of our membership. Our response? Spend millions of dollars and hours of work to decide who else we can exclude.”

When you introduce wolves into the flock, should you be surprised when the sheep start to disappear? The church is commanded to keep out the wolves.

[blue-duncan]

“Our response? Spend millions of dollars and hours of work to decide who else we can exclude.”

It has been my sad experience in representing churches opting out of hierarchical denominations, that the denominations don’t really care since the assets of the churches belong to the denominations. They just sell the assets and fund the pensions of the “purple”.

[xzins]

“In the four decades I’ve been an ordained leader in the UMC, we have lost 30 percent of our membership. Our response? Spend millions of dollars and hours of work to decide who else we can exclude.” When you introduce wolves into the flock, should you be surprised when the sheep start to disappear? The church is commanded to keep out the wolves.

It's not liberals who were driven out. It was conservatives. They are everywhere. Had we kept our conservatives and their progeny, we'd be 20 million big or more.