Here’s praying that a split happens. We would have a biblical church committed to historic Christianity and a liberal church as the result.
Charles Wesley must be rolling in his grave...
Part of the great falling away...
The wheat separating from the chaff continues.
I never would have believed we would see the day, where major mainstream religious denominations would face schisms over homosexual marriage and homosexuality.
Yet here we are.
Perhaps there is a silver lining, in that, if denominations split, we people of faith can join with the “conservative” version of our chosen faith.
It would be great if the country could be split up between the conservatives and liberals.
UMC has always been a hippy liberal type church.
I would expect the liberals to try for a split along Africa/US lines so that they could dominate the church in America. The conservatives should hold out for a split on ideological, not geographic, lines.
We had a minister a few years ago, a single woman.
People talk and the overwhelming consensus was that she was gay. She never said she was, never said she wasn’t, it was never brought up and she never dated anyone (that we know of). She played softball and had short hair, that was enough for the majority of our church to form an opinion. She made one comment once about how she thought the church should be more open to homosexuals but only once.
If she was, she was very closeted about it.
In light of the “abomination” expressed in Leviticus regarding sexual deviation to relations with one’s own sex, how can a professional “religious institution” advocate acceptance of that same sexual deviation? Anyone?
Bkmrk.
That THIS seems to be the issue that splits them when they have been going apostate for decades is appalling.
With a split, both would carry the Methodist Church name. That’s wrong in so many ways starting with tolerance and continued acceptance. The Christian Bible followers should be the only Methodist Church while the non followers should be kicked to the curb.
Isn’t Trump a Methodist?
Sure....them faggots are going to tell you exactly how it's going to be......
Good luck with that........
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And of course both will now claim they are following the plain teachings of the Bible to the letter.
Good riddance. Let the false Christians take off their masks and go on their way. The hour is late and they won’t want to even pretend to be Christians at all in a short while.
The Church will have to go underground and meet in small groups in people’s homes. The denominations are fractured and doctrinally opposed, the charities are disputed, the programs are flawed. I’m thinking we are definitely living in the end times...