Posted on 01/26/2021 12:50:15 PM PST by lightman
Here is a glowing review, from Amazon, for the book you mentioned, Never Silent (review is from 2009)....
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2009
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Never Silent was given to my husband by our son. He said, “You’ve got to read this.” And now, I can’t put it down. The account of the faithful men of Africa and Asia who could not stand by and do nothing is a call to us all to not back down when faced with opposition to the truth. As a culture, we are the proverbial frog that is slowly boiled to death—we could choose to jump out, but we’re lured by the truth-wrapped lie called tolerance. I hear on the radio, see on the TV, and read in the newspapers about the increasingly blurred lines between races in post-election America. But this is the real thing—men of other countries and cultures laying down their lives for the church in America. I have new heroes.
Will there be a way to tell (other than asking :) which direction these offshoots - that DO leave - will be taking?
Whether they will be the more conservative/Bible based church vs the more progressive UMC church? Will it be in their (new) name?
The one more conservative group fighting for the split is called the Wesley Covenant Association. They are the lobby group, and their name is probably not what a new conservatice denomination will be called. But you can follow them to keep up with what is going on.
I’ve seen a few crazy liberals talking about having a crazy liberal denomination. So, if the split happens I expect a few splinter groups like that. My guess is there might be an orthodox group as well, but it would be tiny
Thank you!
No problem
Many South Korean missionaries are here, too.
One ministry that grew out of that church has been responsible worldwide for at least one million conversions to Christ. That's just one more example of God's handiwork.
From a different perspective, Protestants don't wish to split a church, they want to split FROM that church. They wish to shake the dust from their clothes and leave said church intact with its own problems.
That is true as it now stands. However, the agreement if it's approved allows each church that votes to leave to join the new orthodox denomination be allowed to keep their building. The consensus is that this will be approved.
The proposed agreement is that the liberal wing of the Methodist will retain the name "The United Methodist Church". The Wesley Covenant Association is well into planning and organizing the structure of the new conservative/Biblical denomination as yet unnamed.
The "United Methodist Church" name is VERY important to the large conservative, orthodox African Methodist and they are demanding to keep it. So that must to be resolved before the actual split occurs.
Thanks.
Quite the fight....for the name and for independence.
Yes, thank God for the Africans.
I’ve always thought the best name for a group that had “method” as a name would be “systematic christianity”. Then they could be called systematics for short.
But, the early method-ists’ “method” worked so well that it captured a couple of generations of Christians and taught them the steps to faith, holiness, and obedience. One could do worse than taking that idea and bringing it into our culture where Christianity is largely an entertainment cult.
or crossing to Eastern Orthodoxy?
Eastern Orthodoxy is a blessing. The strength of faith of their members in the middle east is shown in their horrific martyrdoms.
They are a great example, perhaps of what we are to prepare for.
He is very conservative. Don’t know where he has gone yet.
I voted with my feet twenty years ago. So happy in LCMS.
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