>> The UMC’s Book of Discipline requires churches to carry insurance for the full replacement cost of their buildings as well as liability insurance.
That’s because the heathen sexual-deviant baby-killing filth that now run the UMC own all the property of all their churches and they can’t run the risk that their wealth might be diminished.
I’ll bet that the insurance requirements of the Global Methodist Church — the conservative Methodist denomination that disaffiliated from the faggot UMC — are much less onerous.
Without pretending to offer advice to the Methodists, instead I’ll offer a bit of advice to a large spectrum of churches for these times.
Maybe it’s time for some churches to eschew owning property, buildings, etc. Maybe it’s time for churches to seek out spaces to rent, or lease — such as hotel conference room areas, for Sundays only, while finding a nearby vacant office space, such as in a strip mall, to lease for clerical needs and for meeting spaces during the week.
That way, the landlords are on the hook for insurance, also building and parking lot maintenance. The church takes out a liability policy at a comparatively small price. Then the church would have funds to share with the poor, the persecuted, and for evangelism.
It’s a model that I think would work. And it would obviate the problem stated in this article.