Good for them. This is why I don’t believe in denominations - if the head honchos made an Unbiblical decision - it affects all the churches under it’s umbrella. Then, they have to pay to get out from under that umbrella. I guess I missed that in the Scriptures. Can someone please point that out to me?
Praise the Lord. May MANY more follow...
The most likely got away clean because they are mortgaged to the hilt and the Conference stood to gain very little by taking their property. So, they let them leave since they had very little in assets.
There’s a good strategy in that for other congregations looking to escape that pit of vipers that the UMC has become.
This is not what the Progs who run the UMC wanted to see. The conservative congregations tend to pay full apportionments (the money paid to the Conference each year). Those apportionments plus the guaranteed employment and salary minimums are important to keep those leftist pastors in the pulpit twisting the gospel until they sound like the works of Marx.
To stay in God’s Word is what Jesus tells all Christians to do. As he said in the account of Mary and Martha of Bethany when Mary devoted her time to listening to his words, “Mary has chosen wisely, and it will not be taken from her.” That commendation and promise from our Savior is priceless.
At least one Methodist church fleeing the wrath to come.
I grew up here in south central PA in the EUB Church. When I came out of the Army in ‘61 they’d gone UM. I left at that point and regard an Independent Fundamental Bible Church as my home. A number of Lutheran churches in this area have left their governing body and gone Indy/Fundy lately and have grown exponentially.
Even the local big-box Church that’s nontraditional and nondenominational declared they will not be performing same-sex weddings.
Maybe, together, when we stand one by one, we will be be able to make a difference.
There is no need to discern "the nature of God's Word" when it is in flat-out, black and white, clearly stated in repeated scriptures. Homosexual sex is absolutely sin.
Institutions are often led by those who have an institutional mindset where individual preferences are secondary to what supposedly benefits the institution.
Churches want more members and thus their leadership will sometimes support policies like illegal immigration or gay marriage that will bring more members into the fold.
Political Parties operate the same way.
My church denomination, Evangelical Free (EFCA), released a statement that regardless what the courts or culture say, we stand on Gods word.
In September our pastor will have a series of sermons on what Gods word clearly says about homosexuality, premarital sex,..... The pastor stands ready to obey God over man.
Mr Gryboski ....gee Polish...duh wonder?
They always write like this in north country like all Protestants are on board with gay crap
Not in the south they are not
The few down here that are lib anyhow
Lutheran reformed
Disciples of Christ goblet flag
PCUSA
that about it
Southern Baptist even with out pc chosen bossman is not we’re largest prod denom
Southern Methodist
Mizzou Synod
PCA
Harding Lipscomb Church of Christ...big in Texas and Tennessee
Assemblies of God and nearly all charismatics
I keep wondering how anyone who calls themselves a Christian, can think abortion, practicing homosexually,....is okay with God. Or knowing an innocent baby suffers and then is murdered or seeing two men or two women together isn’t revolting... Especially when the bible explicitly talks about these issues directly. I guess that’s what is meant by “God Gave them over to a depraved mind....” I remind them of the scriptures...then they talk about the nice gay person they know and they can’t help it and it’s not fair.....I just want to slap them or shake them so they wake up.
Adam Hamilton should know better. This won't work. The UMC has an itinerant ministry system. Pastors are assigned to churches and can be transferred within a district. They don't get to pick and choose where they go and though congregations have some input in the process, they have to take what they get.
The UMC church in Africa and some Asian countries is growing while in the U.S. it is shrinking. The African and Asian UMC churches are much more conservative than those in the U.S. At the last General Conference (in which all the global UMC churches have a say), the ordination of homosexuals was voted down by 61%. The issue will reemerge in 2016 and will again be voted down. It should be the liberal UMC churches that split off, not the conservative ones who are in the majority.
I’m trying to understand this, can anyone help me? I thought Methodists, particularly Wesleyans, were among the more traditional of protestant denominations in moral issues, both in USA and their home country of England?
Aren’t Wesleyans closely allied with “Evangelicals”? Don’t Methodists, the Wesley branch especially, strongly rely on the Bible and the “Holy Spirit” too, for all spiritual foundations? Is this the same as “Pentecostal”?
Can you tell I’m Catholic!?! I truly want to know about these various belief systems, because Catholics and Bible-based Christians are going to have to start sticking together in this country.
And, so it goes....