***All I can offer is that we have gradually moved the very liberal UMC to a more conservative position.***
Good for you. No offense meant. I can't imagine how patient a person must be to be involved in something like that.
Do you know if there has ever been a denomination scuttled by liberalism (or any other error) which has been reclaimed by Christ?
If you have children, are you concerned about the influence of the liberal teacher, ministers, literature etc. on them (although your local church may be conservitive)?
I don't know of one that has gone thoroughly liberal that has been reclaimed. The S. Bapts reclaimed from a moderateness.
The UMC is creaking back in the right direction.
Our children are not injured because the conservative movement has gotten very organized. They even have their own publishing: periodicals, Sunday School literature; and their own women's association; and even their own mission sending agency.
Long years of hard work have gone into reclaiming the UMC. Many long years remain.
We will not have victory until we reclaim our seminaries, boards, and agencies.
The Missouri Synod Lutheran Church had at one time 'gone liberal' but was reclaimed by the orthodox.
So too, the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church was widely seen to be 'liberal' by the 1970's. It too was revitalized by a strong evangelical movement.
St. Paul, in spite of the sin and heresies of the Corinthian Church, still regarded and addressed that body as part of the true Church. There is no perfect Church - Augustine put down the Donatists on that count. Thank God we have a perfect Savior.