Posted on 03/07/2023 7:20:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The numbers of congregations leaving seem relatively small on the surface, but the departing churches are conservative, growing, and are many times larger than the left-leaning congregations staying.
Not sure why they think they can deny their leaving.
Seems like they want to keep the buildings if they helped pay for them.
IMHO one financial headache is pensions for preachers. A Methodist preacher who leaves the UM and risks his pension is a real man of God IMHO.
who is leaving? the ones that promote homosexuality or the ones that oppose it.
is mainline methodist promoting or opposing it?
RE: who is leaving? the ones that promote homosexuality or the ones that oppose it.
The first paragraph of the article tells you.
Not a Methodist myself but our local Methodist Church had a vote to leave the overall Denomination organization. The conservatives had less than a majority so they declined to stay and started their own church in an old store. The majority kept the big new church building.
Nothing says spirit filled like thinking a building is a church.
Romans 1 ping.
Sodom and Gomorrah
I know religious denominations have had schisms over various issues throughout history.
I never would have believed that we would see denominations having schisms over the issue of homosexuality.
Yep here we are, it’s happening.
And Methodists are late to the party at that. Lutherans and Episcopalians have long since begun splintering. The last generation of episcopalians have already been born, what few of them there are.
“...The last generation of Episcopalians have already been born...”
Way back in 1978, before Asheville, North Carolina had a liberal town reputation, and hardcore conservatives like Jesse Helms would win Asheville-Buncombe County, the libs were hard at work trying to trash the place. Near the entrance of the Biltmore Estate sat a small and beautiful Episcopal Church. My Helms campaign county coordinator shocked me by saying that the homosexuals had regrettably taken over that church and she was still at that time, an Episcopalian.
The leaving U.S. churches will be joining their Conservative brethren in Africa and Asia, which in terms of membership are globally larger than the Liberal U.S. UMC Churches. The UMC in the U.S. will remain the largest Methodist denomination in the U.S., but not globally.
RE: The leaving U.S. churches will be joining their Conservative brethren in Africa and Asia
The GLOBAL METHODIST CHURCH has been formed as an alternative to the UMC.
See here:
My understanding the was devout churches were in the majority but they are the ones who have to leave.
The UMC is not a Christian church.
Because the leftist figured out how to infiltrate the positions of power and will not relinquish them. They have done the same in every institution for the most part including the GOP.
Wow. BEFORE this latest wave of schism, UMC had already lost 18.4% of its membership between 2010 and 2020.
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