OK, can someone help me out? Please? After three long articles read on this I still can’t figure out who are the “breakaway” congregations.
Are the breakaways the “Fruity Men and the Lezz-be-Friends” tribe?
And are the “We’re stickin’ with the Bible” folks still the mainstream church?
About how many congregations are on each side?
And do the breakaways have a new name? (You know, like the “NOT the Episcopal Church” group.)
Thanks
“OK, can someone help me out? Please? After three long articles read on this I still can’t figure out who are the “breakaway” congregations.
The United Methodist Church is a global protestant church founded in the 1700’s in England. It spread rapidly in the United States in the 1800’s. In recent decades the church hierarchy and governance has been taken over by liberal members and clergy. These liberal members support changing church doctrine to recognize gay marriage and to allow for gay clergy. Most African Methodist congregations as well as many conservative local churches in the United States strongly opposed changing the church doctrine.
The liberals running the United Methodist Church made it clear they intent to change the church doctrine at an upcoming general conference. As a result many conservative congregations chose to leave. The breakaway Global Methodist Church is made up of individual churches who decide to keep the historic church doctrine and teachings. The liberals who favor gay marriage and much of the left’s social justice agenda are now fully in control of the United Methodist Church and will soon change the church doctrine to agree with their view of God’s will.