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Methodists trying to avoid church split over gay rights
Associated Press ^ | May. 18, 2016 7:01 PM EDT

Posted on 05/18/2016 4:08:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: randita

Mo. But LG t was fixing to lose. I think the foreign delegates were confused. Every other instance they wanted to move on and get it over with.


41 posted on 05/19/2016 2:10:05 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

No


42 posted on 05/19/2016 2:17:00 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

The vote to “take a vote” was close - only a few dozen votes. I guess the progressives, knowing they were going to lose, united with the middle of the roaders to table the issue.

Nothing was resolved. 100+ LGBT came out at the conference - some were clergy, some were laypeople. What’s going to be done about that? Many clergy have said they will conduct same sex marriages. What’s going to be done about that?

The progressives, may undertake civil disobedience as a last resort with the goal of driving out the conservatives and keeping all the spoils for themselves. And the spoils are considerable. The local UMC does not own its own property, the global UMC does.


43 posted on 05/19/2016 5:34:17 AM PDT by randita
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To: randita

The conservatives were on the verge of winning this. They were ‘this’ close, and then that parliamentary thing struck. They had an amendment, then a competing one, and they went through all the parliamentary maze that was very confusing. They rejected both of those amendments and came to vote on the bishop’s plan. The major arguments for it were “we asked for a plan and they gave us one, so we should support them.’ The argument against it was “let’s get this over with finally.”

The ‘give the bishops a chance’ won out. I really cannot understand that. If anyone has sided against conservatives all along it has been the bishops. I’d never trust them to come up with a fair plan.

So far as division is concerned, with the Africa churches in ascendancy, the global UMC will end up belonging to the conservatives. Therefore, expect the bishops to come up with another ‘split the denomination by geography’ plan as their compromise. That, of course, spells the end for conservative Methodists in this country.

I watched a lot of this on the live feed yesterday. I was amazed at the confusion. I honestly think the foreign delegrates were confused about the various proposals.

Sadly, the bishop’s ‘proposal’ seems to have included a moratorium on accountability. Therefore, the disobedience will be even worse.

We are effectively in a time of “do what you want” with that vote yesterday.


44 posted on 05/19/2016 5:48:02 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: SaraJohnson

“This is why I can’t join a church.”

Church isn’t about you.


45 posted on 05/19/2016 5:50:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: heye2monn
What would Jesus say?
Men shalt no go into women’s bathrooms!

AMEN!

46 posted on 05/19/2016 6:35:26 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: AppyPappy
Church isn’t about you.

EXTREMELY well put.

47 posted on 05/19/2016 6:36:16 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
I grew up United Methodist, but left about 30 years ago and eventually found myself in the Orthodox Church. Things have been unraveling in the UMC for decades. There are people and clergy who have remained fathful to traditional Christianity, and there are others who could not abandon it fast enough. Unfortunately, the latter have dominated national leadership roles, seminary faculty, etc., for some time. I guess they figured the cultural climate was right this year to make a big push on the homosexual issue.

Considering that homo/bisexuals make up only .5 - 1.5% of the population, I would say that this entire issue is a tempest in a teapot.

However, WHAT a shame for you and others like you.
The church of your forefathers, abandoned because they chose sin. We have always been taught to LOVE the sinner and hate the sin.

At least some of the Protestant denominations and, of course, the Catholic Church, DON'T go along with the acceptance of sin, that is, bi/homosexuality being acceptable.

WHAT a shame, S_C_R.

48 posted on 05/19/2016 6:43:26 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: SaraJohnson

>>This is why I can’t join a church

Churches are full of people so they suck when compared to heaven.

But you are a person too and you (and I) are as flawed as the person in the next pew. Even the pastor can get it wrong some times. Did you think of talking to him privately to see what he was thinking when he said that?


49 posted on 05/19/2016 7:41:51 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: cloudmountain

We support missionaries to spread the Word to the heathen in foreign countries but we won’t go to a church in our own hometown unless it conforms exactly to our beliefs?

Say what?


50 posted on 05/19/2016 8:10:08 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: Olog-hai

That they even have to “discuss” this (what a farce) means that they are already fatally compromised.


51 posted on 05/19/2016 8:15:32 AM PDT by fwdude (If we keep insisting on the lesser of two evils, that is exactly what they will give us from now on.)
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To: cloudmountain

And I love you, too!


52 posted on 05/19/2016 8:33:30 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: jeannineinsd

And the membership loss for the once mighty PCUSA:

http://www.layman.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/pcusa-membership-1960-2014.pdf


53 posted on 05/19/2016 8:39:43 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: AppyPappy

Church isn’t about you.


Have not found one that is about Christ, either.


54 posted on 05/19/2016 11:13:25 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Bryanw92

It’s not individual people who I disagree with that is the problem. It is blasphemous “pastors.”


55 posted on 05/19/2016 11:14:21 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

They are people too, even if they are people held to a higher standard in heaven. But the comment about miracles does not harm the gospel even if taken exactly as he said it. I would still talk to him before I’d label him as blasphemous.


56 posted on 05/19/2016 11:22:20 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: clee1
I’ve been a UMC member all my life. If they change the policy on gay weddings or clergy, my family will have to find a new denomination.... probably Wesleyan.

Might as well leave now then. (I did.) The policy is to have the Book of Discipline say the right thing and then ignore it while people violate it with impunity. This commission won't alter the status quo for at least two years (if it ever can). Is that good enough for you?

57 posted on 05/19/2016 11:23:23 AM PDT by Genoa
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To: Genoa

Yeah.... I’ve been thinking about this for some time.

My current Church is very traditional, and I and my family are quite happy there.

BUT (and it’s a big but), I have been dismayed for many years at the direction the UMC, as an institution, has been going.

The “praise and worship” services; the New-Age, unitarian-type Methodist congregations that eschew traditional Methodist doxology; the slow and subtle trend towards socialistic activities under the guise of “service” to others....

The UMC today is definitely NOT the Church I grew up in.


58 posted on 05/19/2016 11:31:48 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: clee1

If John Wesley had walked into General Conference this week he wouldn’t have stayed more than ten minutes. But it would have been ten minutes I guarantee you they would not soon forget.


59 posted on 05/19/2016 12:01:29 PM PDT by Genoa
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To: Bryanw92

Yes, pastors are people, too. But when they stop believing in the gospel, they need to have the honor to get out of the church and spare the flock traveling to hell with them. Unbelieving Pastors should not exist. They need to be tossed.

On other sins, I can forgive because they are just like us. But being an anti-Christ standing in the pulpit, no.


60 posted on 05/19/2016 12:19:48 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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