I attended FL Annual Conference as a Lay Delegate for the last time in 2014. During a floor debate, my pastor turned to me and said, “do you feel the work of the Holy Spirit in this place?”
I looked at him, because I had just been thinking that, and said “No.”
He said, “me either. I wish I wasn’t United Methodist anymore.”
I left the church 2 weeks later.
I think this is my last trip around the track. No matter what happens, sans-culotte is right. Even if disapproved, these people will remain within causing turmoil after turmoil.
They cannot leave because they cannot grow churches. That means they have no money. So they will hang on agitating because there are paychecks here.
I had a similar experience at the annual conference for the Baltimore-Washington conference a couple of years back. They literally are the DNC now. They had the democrat mayor of Baltimore (Yes, THAT one) speak there two years in a row. They approved messages supporting homosexuality in clergy (and I know of several that are ordained). They also were pimping anti-gun positions. I resigned my Lay Speaker and Conference Delegate duties and quit the church. There was so little talk of God. It didn’t even feel like God was in attendance.