Posted on 07/02/2021 3:13:34 PM PDT by Ennis85
The Methodist Church of the United Kingdom has passed two resolutions, one officially approving the blessing of same-sex unions and the other recognizing cohabiting couples.
According to The Christian Post, in a statement on Wednesday, the Methodist Conference announced that it had passed the resolutions at this gathering in Birmingham, England.
"A report on marriage and relationships, 'God in Love Unites Us,' was received by the Conference in 2019, and the local District Synods were asked to consider the provisional resolutions and report back to this year's Conference," the statement reads.
"The Conference received a report on the results of the local conferring which showed that 29 out of the 30 Synods confirmed support for the provisional resolutions."
As a result, the London-based Conference voted 256-45 to authorize its ministers to perform same-sex marriages. The Conference also approved the use of Methodist churches for same-sex wedding ceremonies.
Regarding the resolution on cohabitation, the Conference stated that it "recognises that the love of God is present" either "through informal cohabitation or a more formal commitment entered into publicly."
"As a Church, we wish to celebrate that the love of God is present in these circumstances, even if that grace is not responded to or even discerned by the people concerned," the resolution said.
"The Church has an important calling, therefore, to point to the presence of God's love within such relationships, and to encourage people to respond to it in the renewing and deepening (by whatever means) of their commitment," it concluded.
Following debate over the resolutions, the Rev. Sonia Hicks, the Conference's new president, praised the conversations for being "conducted with grace and mutual respect."
"As we move forward together after this historic day for our Church, we must remember to continue to hold each other in prayer, and to support each other respecting our differences," she wrote.
Meanwhile, the chair of Methodist Evangelicals Together, a group that opposed the resolutions, called the effort "a very sad day for the Methodist Church."
"It's heartbreaking really to see where we've come and the way in which we've got here, and many of us have wept over it," The Rev. David Hull said in an interview with Premier Christian News.
"In spite of these votes, there are many, many Methodists who still believe that Jesus offers a unique vision for life — one that is rooted deeply in the Bible, that is better than the world has ever known, better than the world will ever know, and that includes this teaching on marriage and relationships," he asserted.
Romans 1:26-28 - New American Standard Bible (1995)
26. For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, 27. and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. 28. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper,
Charles and John are spinning like centrifuges…
And after that, abortion services right in the church (discounted for members).
“God in love unites us.” These people always use slogans like this to imply God is just fine with any reprehensible acts we choose to commit, as long as we profess to do it out of “love.” When God really walked among us miserable sinners, he made it plain that His words would divide us more than unite. He also expressly stated that man and woman were created to complement each other in lifelong marriage and no other arrangement was acceptable to Him.
I expect the disease that infests these libtards to be exported to the US
where the Methodist church has already splintered into three groups and 2 of the groups are already pagan..
I used to be a Methodist and still am on paper but gave up on them a long time ago.
So the UK Methodists have decided to lose their members and sink into irrelevance.
Instead of influencing society for the better, churches are letting society control them for the worse.
Ping.
Atheist nations’ populations have people living with a stronger family code than the West.
The West is no longer Christian, there are just small pockets of Christianity.
IMO, God is now letting us reap the rewards of rejecting him.
Jesus wept.
This is the opposite of Wesley’s holiness movememt.
Ping
Well played.
You do realize that most of Wesley’s Oxford “Holy Club” useages were taken from the Orthodox liturgies?
Orthodox Theosis is the only way to true Wesleyan Perfection.
Well said.
“Yet saints their watch are keeping
Their cry goes up, ‘how long?’
And soon the night of weeping
Becomes the day of song.
“The Church’s One Foundation” third stanza.
I did not know that. Thank you for pointing it out. I do remember sitting in the pews and hearing sermons about “death to self” and making oneself and instrument of the Lord’s purposes. “Less of me; more of Thee.”
The last great English Methodist leader was William E Sangster, a fiery evangelist sort of like Billy Graham and Dwight Moody whose life was cut short by Charcot’s disease, aka ALS, in 1960. Afterwards, the English Methodist church began drifting left.
Heretics flirting with whole apostasy.
Heretics flirting with whole apostasy.
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