[Morgana]

This just shocks me

[Sparticus]

John Wesley, George Whitefield and Charles Wesley would be utterly appalled.

[bigbob]

A small former UMC church out in the country near me that disaffiliated had contractors working last week to more than double the size of their parking lot.

[arthurus]

The United Methodist Church has ceased to be Christian and therefore is not properly a church at all.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "UMC General Conference delegates voted this week...."

Therein lies the structure of the issue. "Democratic" procedures involving a denomination's scriptural "repository of faith" means the repository can be raided / emptied / trashed.

Sample the people who voted, in their own voices, because this is what UMC "theology" like -- pure identity politics.

This is the United Methodist Church. They've gone fully woke.

[maddog55]

Not me... Liberal scum has infected everything. All part of the plan.

[Wuli]

I wonder what regional youth conferences in the UMC look like today. When I was a teen we had discussions with preachers and on two occassions at one conference we had open calls for all teens who were ready to come forward and declare-confess their acceptance of Jesus Chirst as their Savior. I imagine they avoid that today.

[Salman]

There are Sodomy churches and non-Sodomy churches. This cuts across denominational lines. Even in Judaism.

The ruling class religion is Sodomy.

[Jane Long]

This just shocks me

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You’re shocked that the Global Methodist Church won’t ordain LGBT or marry same sex marriages, like the UMC?

[circlecity]

“ the GMC issued a statement Wednesday stating that it "do[es] not have any affiliation with their decisions, nor do we wish to comment or provide commentary on the actions of other religious organizations."

But, will they continue to support the UMC financially?

[Albion Wilde]

“Rooted in the teachings of Jesus Christ and the historic confessions of the Christian faith proclaimed over the past two thousand years, The Global Methodist Church remains dedicated to upholding its denomination's strong foundation.”

If that were true, GMC would not be allowing women pastors, which is what sunk the UMC.

But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. —2 Timothy 3:1-7