Posted on 01/03/2023 12:56:39 PM PST by fwdude
The theological fracture within the country's largest mainline Methodist denomination has grown more contentious as a church conference in Georgia has temporarily blocked churches from disaffiliating.
The United Methodist Church North Georgia Conference last week cited "misinformation" for its decision to "pause" any further disaffiliation efforts from congregations attempting to leave the denomination, according to a Dec. 28 email sent to member churches.
The email claimed "many local churches have been misled about the disaffiliation process and have been presented with information about the process" and about denominational leadership "that is factually incorrect and defamatory."
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They should leave regardless.
The church leadership is stupid. Blocking a member church from leaving will just result in the members of that congregation finding a new church to attend. The church leadership just needs to accept the results that these congregation members of selected and move on with life.
Denominations are inherently problematic.
Just leave. Adios, MotherRucker
GloboHomoTransPervertMarxists will not relent until they destroy every organized faith.
Why I swam the Tiber. I believe Catholics have a chance.
When the congregation goes elsewhere, there is no Church.
I think many Methodist churches and facilities are built and owned by the United Methodist church as a whole. So I could see some problem with an individual member church wanting to break away and take an asset with it (though the money should not be the primary concern of the larger church organization).
I grew up Methodist in GA back in the 60’s and 70’s, but I have been a non-denominational Bible-based church constituent for many decades since then.
Church politics are sad. It takes so much away from the real message. Non-denoms that own their own facilities seem to get that.
It’s about grabbing the property and endowments of the churches that are trying to leave.
It is the primary concern here, millions in endowments and real estate flowing to a smaller far-left leadership and to lefty ministers who are driving their own churches into the ground.
I gave up on the United Methodist more than 30 years ago and they get worse each and every year.
I can understand that, but those properties just become a drain on the larger organization when they have no members. the 1-3% demographic they are catering to is certainly insufficient to fill the pews, so they are invariably going to be left with empty sanctuaries. Might as well figure out a way to peacefully and equitably allow those locations to transition the property to a local membership instead of trying to contest it. Especially when such empty churches can go years before someone buys them because they are in fact very expensive properties.
As opposed to what?
Do you know when they started ordaining women as ministers? I believe that is where the downhill slide really got rolling.
Non-denominational churches.
I’m starting to think the Quakers are on to something. :-)
Is it “misinformation” that they are ordaining bull dykes?
Yep. 15 years ago, I lived in a small town that had four Baptist Churches within a crossroad. Actually three on a crossroads and the fourth at the other end of the block.
Funny thing there was a new church and a slightly older one, a slightly older one and another older one.
We, Baptist are a contentious lot.
Birmingham Southern College is asking the Methodist Church for help bailing them out. The school has gone through its endowments. After all this comes out, I wonder which sector of the Methodist Church will hold the purse strings.
In my neck of the woods the Methodists built everything on their own, made repairs, one 100 year old church remodeled only to be told after they decided to leave and become indpendent that the Methodist counsel or whoever is in charge in the state would rather see the building become a “coon hunters barn” than another church. They couldn’t afford to buy it back even tho they paid for everything so they disbanded. Late last year one Methodist Church in a small town in our area had to pay the Methodists $85,000 to remain in their building even tho they personally as a congregation paid for it all. I call it evil.
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