Who is left?
Liberal congregations
Small churches who can’t afford a pastor by themselves
Older, dying congregations
Churches with pastors near retirement
Dear leader Zelensky says “GOOD RIDDANCE to them and GIBS-ME-MO’-BILLIONS”.
Wise choices. Time to take a stand.
“...One of our storms is disaffiliation,” Palmer said”
No, the storm is you, “Bishop”. Satan’s servants infiltrating themselves into the clergy. Disaffiliation is the sheep seeking shelter from that storm.
It’s hard to have a religion based on a book when you don’t believe the book. Just write your own book or pick a different book. Methodists and others have been squishy for decades.
A Parson is a traveling preacher. The Methodist Church has a system set up where it’s preachers move from one congregation to another every Four or Five years. Continuity in the policy’s of the Methodist church is hard to maintain when a preacher can come in and change things and then move along when the damage is done.
What do those that remain get for giving the groomer gang of pastors in power access to their children?
The Free Methodist Church (more conservative but small) should be talking merger with them.
“Nearly 100 congregations in Ohio have left the United Methodist Church amid the denomination’s ongoing debate over homosexuality”
What debate? There is no ‘debate’! The UMC is all-in on every degenerate sexual deviancy imaginable and anyone who objects is going to have to leave.
One thing that is obvious now is that the UMC is not a Christian denomination. Whatever it is, it is NOT Christian!
Organized religion anything but Godly.
Worship God, pray to Jesus, read His book. No need for organized religion.
One UMC near me is in competition with the Church of Christ to see who can get the most queers, based on their signs and fag flag type outdoor displays.
Dontcha just love wishy-washy, say-nothing "statements" like that?
It would be so much clearer if he just said, "The people who are nauseated by the thought of men sticking their genitals into each other's rectums, and who refuse to allow that to be 'sanctified' as a Holy Sacrament, are leaving us. They claim that it's an 'abomination before the Lord.' Wonder where they came up with that expression?"
Regards,
“Marriage between one man and one woman is the foundation of Western Civilization.” - Dennis Prager. - From his seminal article: “Why Judaism (And Then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality.” Worth a read.
United Methodist Fag Church
If it says “United” (to fags) RUN!
I grew up in the church and have a long family history with the denomination. This is splitting my family, well one sister is still working for an “affirming” congregation - they call it Reconciling Ministry. My other sister and me had previously left.
Anyway, I share my thoughts here if you are interested.
https://harrisonshome.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-united-methodist-church-under.html
Not a big fan of UMC. When my Aunt passed, she left everything she had including her house to UMC. I asked for family pictures. They were boxed up and sent to a landfill.