[ConservativeMind]

When I was a child and visiting the local Methodist church in my town, I could see how it had shallow underpinnings in Scripture.

This continues to bot surprise me, sadly. I knew some good people who went there.

[algore]

In a 1915 book of fables by Horace Scudder, the story titled The Arab and His Camel ends with the moral: “It is a wise rule to resist the beginnings of evil

[alexander_busek]

The Dis-United Methodist Church General Conference has advanced a measure meant to allow different regions of the global denomination to determine their own standards on LGBT issues.

Regards,

[A strike]

Apparently the United Methodist Church has theological variances.
Did they get that approved with Him ?

[niteowl77]

In my home town, the UMC was the "fun activities" church, always good for a ski outing or a trip to some attraction. In that particular case, the congregation drifted into a post-Christian tar pit as members rationalized their kids' aberrations. One kid dodged the draft, so suddenly his parents made a big deal about pacifism. Another kid got into the drug scene and his parents became strident dope legalizers. Then some kids came out of the closet and their parents just had to insist - at the top of their lungs - that homosexuality was good. By the time they started shedding members, there was nothing too whacked-out for the place to embrace on behalf of some twit trying to justify the predilection of their kid or grandchild.

"My kid can do no wrong, and I'll deny the Bible if I have to!"

To be fair, as time passed they also had an increasingly apostate parade of pastors from the seminaries. As of 2024, they can fit the entire attendance of a normal Sunday service in a school bus and still have room for a couple of obese drag queens... and are as self-righteous and smug in their "tolerance" as they can be.

[fwdude]

Maybe they could allow regions to adopt a position of atheism for their region as well.

This is pure insanity. You can’t have a domination where anything goes and still be a denomination.

[ReformedBeckite]

My gut feeling is this is this ruling was made by the Un-Godly WOKE, Jezebel big wigs in the denomination to keep their funds from drying up as more Godly members/Churches decide to leave the denominations and take their money with them.

[Bob434]

As the umc yields more and more of its soul to Satan... (that is not to say all churches in umc are, just that some are- they are abandoning God’s word in favor of pleasing the immoral masses

[Salman]

I suppose this is supposed to head off a schism over the issue? Or counteract a schism in progress? Lots of luck.

[EdgeOfDarkness]

A Very Laodicean decision - lukewarm - make a decision instead of trying to appease everyone.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Are they making this move to stop the hemorrhaging of its membership?

[Wuli]

It is a way for UMC money from outside the U.S. to continue to flow to the UMC HQ bodies in the U.S., while those UMC HQ bodies remain run predominately by UMC Liberals/Progessives. The Liberals/Progressives in favor of “regionalization” belief if they can keep the European, Asian and African UMC Churches in the UMC, with regionalization, they can in time “convert” the traditionalists in the regions to their Liberal/Progressive point of view. If that belief is is accurate about the situation, then in time regionalization will not stop the schism that it is meant to prevent; the traditionalists outside the U.S. will not accept continued chiding from U.S. Liberal/Progressives to adopt their Liberal/Progressive views.

[Wuli]

second comment:

And, regionalization will make a mockery of being “one” church.

[fwdude]

I’ll say that any denomination/sect which allows the ordination of women to ministry WILL ultimately go this route. It’s unavoidable.