Posted on 06/20/2023 10:14:36 AM PDT by Twotone
A Methodist Church in our community has already been sold.
$1.59M for us. We’re the biggest church in our district.
It isn’t right. The Rainbow Methodists were the ones who strayed from the WORD.
No, it is not right. Unfortunately, it has become clear over the last 40 years that they’re not going to stop. So I think it was actually a godly thing to simply say, “OK, we will leave you to it. We cannot stay where God is not honored.“
Well.....why didn’t you PING HER, and, ask her, yourself?
It all started with the gay ordination and same sex marriage push and has steadily expanded to include all manner of perversions. It should be obvious to even the most disinterested observer that it was never about inclusion, but rather destruction of the church and the moral and ethical standards it promotes.
Can the apostate Catholic Church do the same? No?
It would be much more revealing to know the average sizes of the churches leaving versus the churches staying. I’d be willing to bet the congregations opting to leave are on an order of at lease 5 times the membership of those staying, A lot of the departing churches are mega-churches, which tend to be theologically sound and vibrant.
Of course, there will be shifting of members in congregations, but it will be toward the more conservative side as the liberal congregations get more and more unbelievably perverse.
I’ve taken the time to watch many publicly broadcast disaffiliation meetings and discussion townhalls of UMC churches over the past few years. Within the first few SECONDS of these recordings, you can tell the definite bent of the church holding the meeting. The polarization is uncanny.
The leftist ones are usually conducted by a feminist-looking female “pastor” with a hyphenated name. Prayer seeking divine guidance before the meeting is either completely absent or is a formal dead mention. When the Book of Discipline is mentioned, it is with contempt or with a sense of dismissal. The Bible is hardly mentioned all all. The LGBTPedo+ monster is front and center as is pure emotion carrying the entire meeting,
The completely opposite is the case with conservative, traditional congregations adhering to biblical precepts and official church doctrine.
Back when our conservative congregation was still affiliated with the UMC, I tried to look on the bright side, Rather than send missionaries to Honduras, we could send them to influence our own denomination. We could send them to our own Board of Global Ministries.
I was not sure how close the disaffiliation vote might be. After all, Truman Capote grew up here in Alabama. But the vote went 190 for disaffiliation verses five to remain.
Dear Sir, normally one does not return to threads for all the activity and exchanges on Free Republic going forward.
A comment to me this day, 11 July, caused me to return to this thread and your comment on it from 21 June.You asked the war cheerleader draped in Methodism to response to specific questions. She has not, in the last three weeks or so.
She is ignoring your query through bury with FR, as the daily Denys Davidov promotion continues. One may conclude she is either on the pro-UMC LGBT sides of things, and therefore not particularly conservative, or 2) unwilling to "testify" to her faith, through draped in it.
One observes that Hilary Clinton is, or posed as, a Methodist and we know Clinton's stance of LGBT ruling over her church.
But also observes that the public Methodist war monger never comments on articles about the UMC not related to her real passion. War, and specifically tallying the dead. Rather like the Leftists in the UMC who so support Planned Parenthood tallying up of another group of the dead via the Guttmacher Institute, wouldn't you say?
A UM Pastor acquaintance recently had his church vote on leaving the UM main body. They voted to leave. The Pastor is retirement age but strongly supporting leaving the UM main body due to their unscriptural and ungodly positions. The church he pastored was average sized, a few hundred parishioners, of different age groups. They voted almost unanimously to leave.
Excellent questions!
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