Massive Mississippi Church Votes to Abandon Its Increasingly Woke Denomination

Western Journal via MSN ^ | 10/21/2023 | Rachel Emmanuel

[lightman]

Exactly.

“Stage Two” starts the slippery slope to apostasy.

You are what you “tolerate”.

[fwdude]

800 voting members is “massive”?

Yes, considering most modern UMC congregation’s number a few dozen.

[packrat35]

I gave up on the United Methodist Church over 30 years ago.

[AnAmericanMother]

Even St. Padre Pio admitted that the little old ladies in his parish drove him absolutely mad.

The LAST thing they need is a collar and a microphone!

[MayflowerMadam]

I never heard of that padre. But Dad was a preacher for 50 years, and many of the women were quite the stirrer-uppers.

OTOH, some were the most godly wonderful people on earth. Even though they didn’t preach, they provided great stability to the churches behind the scenes. Selfless, helpful, and loving.

[fwdude]

This is typically the case, that the congregations leaving the Untied Methodist Church are the largest 10% of those in the denomination. So, the number of churches leaving skews the true picture. Look at is from the MEMBERS leaving and you see a much more dramatic exodus.

[AnAmericanMother]

Everybody's got a job to do - it's the ones who are resentful and think they're being "kept down" that are the problem.

Bloom where you're planted. Brighten the corner where you are. It's not difficult.