Good points!
In its annual summary, The United Methodist Church called 2013, “a year of growth, progress.” Never mind that the organization is losing members; it’s gaining cash. And so they’re happy. How can anyone question that they are prioritizing cash over salvation when they are happy that they are growing as they are losing members?
>>In its annual summary, The United Methodist Church called 2013, “a year of growth, progress.” Never mind that the organization is losing members; it’s gaining cash. And so they’re happy. How can anyone question that they are prioritizing cash over salvation when they are happy that they are growing as they are losing members?
Yep. At FL Annual Conference this year, they were happy that we had more money, but lost 7000 Methodists last year. When I made my report to my church, I pointed out that that’s almost 70 of our church that is gone forever from the UMC. That’s just Florida!
In FL, we also closed 6 churches this year and opened 0. They spun that as strengthening the ones that remained. I doubt those people left their dying church to go to another UMC.