‘’We’ve lost 30% of our membership’
Including me. This guy doesn’t realize that the 30% left because of pastors/ministers/bishops like him. If Methodist leaders can’t follow the Bible without turning it’s words upside down, there is no point in attending. I left the Methodist Church a week after 9/11. My pastor blamed the terrorist attack on ‘world hunger’ and said from the pulpit ‘we must redistribute the wealth so that everyone has enough’. Buh-bye, Socialist Church.
Of course the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks were wealthy. One of the major attacks in the U.K. involved multiple doctors that were all very well off.