I posted an article a month or so ago showing that the membership trajectory of the UMC within the USA says that it will not exist in the year 2050. We have a few large churches, but the vast majority are smaller and older.
I agree with the analysis. This denomination is done if there isn’t a split.
Wesley was right. We should have stayed in home groups.
“This denomination is done if there isn’t a split”
Right you are. I’ve told my friends at my Methodist church that if homosexual “marriage” is approved in 2016 that I will be gone. I would go back if there was a split, and my church came down on the correct side of the split, but I can’t see the future, so my future with the Methodist church is up in the air at the moment. It doesn’t help that my minister is a leftist either. After the Charleston shooting, she(that’s correct I said she) gave a sermon about how White society is still racist, and we have White Privilege. She is white, and our congregation is lily white(what a hypocrite). The worst came this past Sunday when I asked for prayers for the four marines, and one sailor who were killed in the islamic attack in Chattanooga. She said we should also pray for the killer. That disgusted me.