Posted on 01/30/2024 11:27:58 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
That was the end of Wesley's church, for sure. There was a beautiful M.E. liturgy before that, and socially conservative congregations.
Proud to be among those who tore the bonds with a demonic institution.
Many more churches are trying to leave but are being restrained by their Bishop.
many of their members will just leave and go somewhere else
Our congregation would have left, but we're a tiny congregation and simply could not afford what it would have cost us. We'll continue to do what we do, and see where things go, but we don't trust those running the circus to do the right thing. Sad.
You beat me to it. That’s pretty much what I was going to type.
Many congregations that did not disaffiliate, had organized groups leave and start a new congregation. Auburn, Alabama’s historic UMC Church beside the campus, had many of its most active members leave as a group and are currently meeting at Lee Scott, a private high school.
It is not “propaganda”. The Neo-Soviets are busy rehabilitating Stalin in Russia and renaming Ukraine’s Liberty Plaza after Lenin. The old Soviet’s were successful in gaining influence in lots of churches and denominations, including Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox. The pastor that is constantly bullied on FR works hard fighting such infiltration. What do you do about it?
Churches who voted to leave the UMC were required to pay substantial sums of money to do so. I am not totally familiar with the formula used, but my church had to pay the Florida Conference of the UMC $65,000.00 to leave and get title to our property.
Our church was current in its apportionments to the UMC, so we were able to escape relatively unharmed. Other churches who were in arrears of their apportionments could not afford the expense of leaving the UMC and had to stay.
I am wagering that many of those churches will be shut down and the property sold by the UMC. Also, I wager that many conservative UMC church members will leave an increasingly LIEberal and “woke” UMC and gravitate to the GMC churches.
The UMC disestablishment movement is far FRom over.
When the UMC decides to close the historic church, as it will as soon as the church is not viable, perhaps the former members can buy it?
When the UMC decides to close the historic church, as it will as soon as the church is not viable, perhaps the former members can buy it?
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