Posted on 06/20/2023 10:14:36 AM PDT by Twotone
Resistance to the LGBT agenda now spans legislatures, schools, and churches across the country and world, bringing division among Catholic and Anglican bishops, and now among Methodist pastors as well.
More than 5,000 congregations have left the United Methodist Church (UMC), the second-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., over its pro-LGBT stance. The “disaffiliation” movement saw churches leaving in droves over the past several weeks, with UM News, the official news service of the UMC, reporting the disaffiliation of 5,458 churches just this year and 25,500 Methodist churches remaining.
According to reports, the mass exodus of Methodist churches comes after “liberal leaders in the UMC disregarded a 2019 vote upholding the church’s ban on ordaining LGBT clergy and officiating at or hosting same-sex weddings.”
In 2022, Fox News reported that “several conservative members of the Methodist clergy” stated that “far from settling the issue, however, the 2019 vote was disregarded by many liberal leaders within the UMC who decided to remain in the denomination while commissioning openly gay clergy and officiating same-sex weddings anyway.”
In 2019, the Methodist General Conference also “approved a church law allowing UMC churches to leave with their church property if two-thirds of their congregation and regional governor body approved,” paving the way for the current mass exodus over the open acceptance of the LGBT agenda.
The backlash confronting the attempt to normalize homosexuality and transgender ideology and practices within the Methodist church is being witnessed similarly in legislatures at home and abroad, as well as the commercial market and within the episcopal hierarchy of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
Numerous states have now banned to varying degrees the mutilation and chemical castration of children through so-called “transitional” surgeries and puberty blockers. The government of Uganda recently increased its criminal penalties for sodomy and homosexual child rape. The Anglican bishops of several African countries broke communion with the Anglican church of England for its approval of the blessing of same-sex unions.
And although several dissident Catholic U.S. bishops and cardinals openly support or silently allow the LGBT agenda, even celebrating so-called “Pride Masses” in the name of a heretical inclusion of those who do not accept Catholic teaching on sexual morality, the Catholic bishops of the U.S. have firmly condemned transgender ideology and the mutilation of children being aggressively pushed by the LGBT movement.
America and the world are waking up to the “woke culture” being pushed on them and are beginning in earnest to push back against the insanity. The fallout within the Methodist church is but the latest brick to fall from the collapsing dam and is perhaps a truly hopeful sign in the skies of the momentum to reclaim our culture and families while we still can.
I thank God for those churches, whatever their denominations, to come out from among them. The Lord bless them and keep them.
The Church has a world-wide vote that decided NOT to accept gay marriage.
The lefties just ignored it.
“It’s settled law” only when they want it to be.
UCLA said in 2011: 3.5% of the population is LGBTQ.
Somehow, the numbers went way up in the last couple of years coinciding with promotion in schools.
2022: ABC News. The percent of U.S. adults who identify as something other than heterosexual has doubled over the last 10 years, from 3.5 percent in 2012 to 7.1 percent, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
So the Methodist Church is making a division over 7.1 % of possible congregants (although regular church going is probably at a low amount among the gays).
25K remaining. Speaks volumes.
Methodist bump!
Yes, 25,000 churches remain in the UMC.
Some are at risk of losing their facilities to the UMC.
Some already have.
Some have pastors who are about to retire and who do not want to lose their pensions.
Many more are subsidized by the apportionments that were provided by the conservative, Bible-believing, and tithing congregations who have now fled the UMC.
As the free money dries up those churches will be sold off.
Which was at least part of the point here was the lefty grifters took over the UMC fully intending to profit from the tens of billions in real estate that is owned by the UMC.
Oh, 5,000 bigoted homophobic branches eh?
That split had been danced around for as long as was possible. I am amazed that it took this long. There are plenty more congregations that are left behind. Many will leave as time goes on.
The Lord rejects everything homosexual related, His is the only vote that counted.
The only thing a sinner can do that He approves of is repent, responding to the old Gospel.
Romans 1:18-32 says what happens when folks do not give Him glory or are thankful but instead want “church” their way.
I would not be surprised if the Roman Catholic Church did something jut like that.
That Evil person posing as a Catholic Pope is at it again.
This time, it’s very bad.
Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
The August 19 date refers solely to the adoption of the gaysbian agenda, NOT to the “Full Communion” agreement.
Be rooted in Christ!
Delighted to see that 1/3 of the congregations in my Pennsylvania County—including the ones that I pastored many decades ago—are among those departing.
Sadly, the congregation of my childhood is not among them.
Of course that one has been served by a female in recent years...
Do you think an openly declared UMC "reverend" will opine on this topic, in this thread and others, so directly a part of her Freeper persona?
Another church caves to faggotry and perversion
Stay as far away as you can
#Remnant
My church voted 85% to disaffiliate, significantly more than the required 67%. The libs in our church were shocked to find that the VAST majority of butts in the pews believe in the biblical view of sex and marriage. I’m very encouraged.
UM Churches in my area had to fork over $$$$$ to leave the denomination even though 90+% voted to disaffiliate.
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