United Methodist Church Challenged to End Support for Abortion

http://www.lifenews.com/nat3225.html ^ | July 4, 2007 | John Lomperis

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Yes.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

I our state the UMC had a lobbyist whose job it is is to make sure abortion is not restricted in any way. The lobbyist was also a Methodist minister.

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

All of these National Council of Churches "churches" are in the same boat. They are no longer churches. They are left-wing, liberal political organizations disguised as churches so that unsuspecting contributors continue to fund these political organizations.

• African Methodist Episcopal Church

• The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church

• Alliance of Baptists

• American Baptist Churches in the USA

• The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

• Diocese of the Armenian Church of America

• Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

• Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

• Church of the Brethren

• The Coptic Orthodox Church in North America

• The Episcopal Church

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

• Friends United Meeting

• Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

• Hungarian Reformed Church in America

• International Council of Community Churches

• Korean Presbyterian Church in America

• Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church

• Mar Thoma Church

• Moravian Church in America Northern Province and Southern Province

• National Baptist Convention of America

• National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.

• National Missionary Baptist Convention of America

• Orthodox Church in America

• Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA

• Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

• Polish National Catholic Church of America

• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

• Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.

• Reformed Church in America

• Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada

• The Swedenborgian Church

• Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch

• Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America

• United Church of Christ

• The United Methodist Church •

[Deut28]

Wonderful information, but you answered neither question.

What I’m saying is that being Methodist doesn’t make you Christian or make you not Christian.

[Louis Foxwell]

What I am saying is that the United Methodist Church, a legal corporation, can no longer, by virtue of its Book of Discipline and official positions, be considered a Christian organization.

[Deut28]

By that logic, there are no Christian organizations.

Every legal corporation has at least one other claiming doctrinal inconsistencies with the teachings.

I guess what I don’t understand is your purpose in this. Obsessing over legalizations is precisely what we’re warned against doing. Defining “Christian” by an exhaustive set of laws isn’t exactly what Christ taught.