When I came to the painful realization 20 years ago that I must split from the church that was once a proponent of Wesleyan holiness, I thought back over my past ten UMC pastors. Nine out of the ten were either pro-gay or gay themselves (flouting the rules of the denomination), even the one who used to be a military chaplain. It's as if they couldn't read the plain meaning of words in the scriptures.
I am in a Bible-believing church now, and so much more at peace without the weekly assaults to conscience from the UMC pulpit.
“I am in a Bible-believing church now, and so much more at peace without the weekly assaults to conscience from the UMC pulpit.”
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I’m very happy to hear this. I left the Lutheran church after reading a few biographies of Luther and reading the Bible. It was a lot of anguish but once we found a solid Bible church there is no going back.
Even in very solid bible churches where the gospel is preached or in a seminary with a fantastic doctrinal statement, or even very famous preachers or teachers there are some who believe almost all of the words of the Bible but come up short on believing every single word. It’s not about reading or attendance or giving or service it’s all about faith in the word. And that is difficult.