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Largest Methodist Church in Michigan Votes 616-9 to Leave the Denomination
Western Journal ^ | 3/5/23 | Jack Gist

Posted on 03/25/2023 12:08:24 PM PDT by CFW

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To: null and void
"625 members is the largest Methodist church in the whole state?"

Church "membership" and "attendance" are two different things. Not everyone who comes to service is a member.

625 members probably means about 800+ weekly attenders. That's big (not "mega-church" big), but pretty good.

41 posted on 03/25/2023 2:44:37 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: CFW
I guess the United Methodist Church should be renamed to Divided Methodist Church!! 🤓

I wonder who is the 9 morons who voted to stay?

42 posted on 03/25/2023 2:44:45 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi.. Hello 2023, can we get over 2020 yet? )
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To: bert

There are protocols that allow the congregation to keep their facilities. I am certain this body understood the process clearly enough to protect their holdings.


43 posted on 03/25/2023 2:46:03 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (End the Biden criminal spree now!)
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To: lightman
Lack of theology of sanctification and deficient Christology are the diseases.

You are precisely correct. Confession and sanctification have been utterly lost in the United Methodist Church. John Wesley has been spinning in his grave for decades.

44 posted on 03/25/2023 2:51:09 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (End the Biden criminal spree now!)
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To: faucetman

The priesthood must be restored.


45 posted on 03/25/2023 2:53:19 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (End the Biden criminal spree now!)
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To: cherry

I just now did the same thing. I will keep my tag line.


46 posted on 03/25/2023 3:23:37 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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>> Christians are, of course, to strive for peace and avoid conflict when they can

Except for that necessary outcome of a violent death on the cross


47 posted on 03/25/2023 3:57:07 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“Finally someone cuts from the UMC?”

In the South many UMC churches have voted to leave the old UMC and join a new church with a traditional faith.


48 posted on 03/25/2023 5:12:48 PM PDT by elpadre (nd )
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To: CFW

That’s not very many people voting. Why can’t homo trans perverts leave 600 people alone to worship as they do, and not be forced to worship at the altar of trans faggotry?


49 posted on 03/25/2023 5:40:41 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: bert

I’m sure there’s many commercial building coming up soon.


50 posted on 03/25/2023 5:40:58 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness ; Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat)
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To: FlyingEagle

“That’s not very many people voting. Why can’t homo trans perverts leave 600 people alone to worship as they do, and not be forced to worship at the altar of trans faggotry?”

I suspect the numbers voting were the ones that actually attended the church, not the ones on the member roll.

I haven’t attended a church that was controlled by an “association” since I was a pre-teen. I’m more of an independent Baptist type who prefers her sermons be directly from the Bible rather than the pre-prepared sermon sent to the pastor a few days before Sunday morning services, complete with the cute sermon title and “out-of-context” verses he is told to quote included.


51 posted on 03/25/2023 5:54:15 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: CFW

Futt buckers are not welcome in the New Testament church.
Read First Corinthians, Chapter 4 and/or 5.
Well, they are welcome if they repent and generally abstain from the sin of sodomy.
Same is true for fornicators.
Covetous people.
Greedy persons.
Adulterers.
The entire list is sort of a Big Ten of the type of sins that characterize many unbelievers. But not all-inclusive.
Very sad how many “Christians” have little to no regard for much of what is written in Holy Scripture. Even denying the God who paid for salvation of those who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.


52 posted on 03/25/2023 6:00:08 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian (.)
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To: Soul of the South

I cannot, for the life of me, understand why so many “believers” are supporting homosexuals in the UMC!

To me, it is a “no brainer;” there is NO PLACE in the Methodist Church for homosexuals!

So, our church is dis-affiliating!


53 posted on 03/25/2023 6:49:25 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: sarge83

They’re still paying full price for the camel and swallowing it whole.


54 posted on 03/25/2023 7:48:10 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: faucetman
Read your bible. Talk with God. Worship HIM (NOT her, it, them, we, etc.) You’ll be a lot better off, in every way, than if you regularly attend an organized religion church.

Yes, a perfect way to never have to practice your Christinaity among other who are Christian. Christ created his church for reason and it was not to sit home alone. Love God and love others. Church helps us learn to love others.

55 posted on 03/25/2023 7:53:53 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: faucetman
Read your bible. Talk with God. Worship HIM (NOT her, it, them, we, etc.) You’ll be a lot better off, in every way, than if you regularly attend an organized religion church.

Community and gathering in worship are biblical - so if you actually read the Bible you know that is an act of obedience.

56 posted on 03/25/2023 9:10:56 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: DouglasKC

Yes.


57 posted on 03/25/2023 9:11:45 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Joe Boucher

Churches should stand for the gospel. Everything else will take care of itself.


58 posted on 03/26/2023 4:44:31 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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