Posted on 11/25/2024 11:57:21 PM PST by Morgana
And now we have the latest example of go woke go broke
I grew up Methodist , and it was never so leftist as it is now. My mother played piano and organ in our church for 47 years. She is spinning in her urn. God will judge them someday and i don’t think they will like the verdict .
Sad how some veer away from the Word.
Yep. I also grew up Methodist. Fundamental independent Baptist now.
:: UMC are a bunch of racist buggers. ::
bugger-ers
What do you get when you cross a Jehovah’s Witness with a United Methodist?
Someone who knocks on your door for no reason.
Just Wow. Cutting off funding sorta makes sense, since they’re not part of the UMC (although it shows how the funding was never about charity, but control). Trying to seize the property? If you’re going to go straight to Hell for your behavior, at least have a chance of winning?
Our church disaffiliated a little over a year ago. I shouldn’t be stunned, but still am, that the UMC is so utterly blind to its own apostasy and arrogance.
It’s so sad to see a once-godly church self destruct. Definitely a sign of the great falling away.
The UMC continues to crumble. There never was a majority for all the woke nonsense but by being totally obnoxious over gay and trans issues the minority drove the majority out. Sad really. The doctrinally orthodox should have put up a better fight but alas they were too peaceful to confront the devil.
We are still in the UMC. It’s funny how all the nonsense never makes it to the small congregations but people leave anyway. One minute, we are a “church family” and the next, people are headed for the exits.
... Local church buildings are held in trust not by the global denomination but by the local annual conference, which in this case is the Ivory Coast church, which has now become independent.
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The American congregations that want to leave and take their buildings with them are not so fortunate. This illustrates the dangers of centralized denominations whose top leadership is susceptible to capture by heretical wolves in sheep clothing.
The UMC is taking what to me is an immoral position, no matter how much lawyers may agree with it.
They basically see the local churches and conferences as children built with funds and support from the HQ of the UMC. And yes, in most cases the local church property is considered as “held in tust” for the conference or the UMC.
Then, when churches are trying to separate, they claim the property of the local church, because of the denomination’s role in the establishment of the local church, and that the property was “in trust” for the denomination.
Yet, from where did the UMC HQ get the funds it claims helped build the local churches? It got it from the local churches and their conferences, including local churches that now see the UMC as no longer honoring the RELIGIOUS TRUST held by the UMC when the local churches started.
Do you think maybe--just maybe-- the problem started here?
I’ve said it a million time before and I’ll say it again.
This is NOT my Grandmother’s Methodist church
I see the problem but then again who put her in office?
True.
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