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Thank you so much for posting this. The issue is particularly poignant in my case.
As a teacher of an adult Sunday School class in a rural UMC church with only about 40 members, I watched over the years as a parade of pastors came through the door, many of whom were clearly apostate in terms of adherence to scripture.
Finally, last year the church had had enough. The lady pastor said “I believe in a loving God...there is no Hell!” Yikes!
The peasants grabbed their pitchforks, changed the locks on the church and locked the UMC out. Moved to a machine shop for services. There is a wonderful, loving and liberated spirit in the worship.
We are in the concluding phase of moving back into our church as a fully independent body of believers. The UMC is a godless, heretical bureaucracy. But then, so is Washington DC. The attorney Dan Dalton in Michigan is doing some great work for those abandoning that sinking ship.
“Stand up, stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the Cross!”
Thank You Again for Posting!

A rural church had a sweet spirit (which I experienced first hand on a visit), celebrated 100 years, and decided they no longer wanted to be a part of the Methodist agenda. The congregants built the church and then a few years ago remodeled it. Well, because of their stand they were given notice to evacuate, the doors locked, and whoever was in charge at a higher level in the Methodist hierarchy told the church he would rather see the building turn into a coon hunter’s barn than another church. I was told Methodists don’t own their building even if it is paid in full and built by church members. At least it was the case with this church. The members chose to go to other Bible believing churches in the area. It was so sad.

A SoCal Congregational church discovered in 1970 that its pastor was an atheist. The congregation went across the street and started a new church, which thrives to this day. A few holdouts recruited the youth pastor from a nearby Congregational church, who preached to twelve people on his first Sunday. He retired a few years ago, when four Sunday services finally became too much.

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.