[ThomasSawyer]

"The Leftists that infest the higher ranks of the UMC do not represent the views of the average member in the pews...The rest of us know the difference between true social justice and the Marxist crap..."

I'm just curious how long "the rest of us" are going to put up with UMC church leaders that trade biblical truth for cultural rot. That excuse doesn't fly with Obama and his attendance for years at Trinity United Church of Christ, why should it work for the UMC "average member". It's high time for "Christians" to decide who they are going to serve and stop being enablers of those so-called churches that would lead so many down the wide and crooked path.

[Bryanw92]

>>I’m just curious how long “the rest of us” are going to put up with UMC church leaders that trade biblical truth for cultural rot.

We are a denomination that is strongly into the small group so we can function as a church of Jesus Christ indefinitely, regardless of what our bishops and district superintendents believe. Wesley invented the small group (well, rediscovered them after 1300 years of Christianity ignoring them) to combat the disconnect between the clergy in the Church of England and the common folk. Our lay leadership (in the south, at least) is strong and doing a great job of leading congregations.