Posted on 01/12/2019 5:34:16 PM PST by Gamecock
Apparently many in the Methodist Church leadership are on a fast track to Hell, and taking as many as they can with them. It is unwise to teach opposition to God and His Word.
Ditto all - Nashville and New York have NEVER spoken for the pews. And the schools obviously dont either.
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Agree!
But what I’m not seeing is a defense of the UMC. Which by the way, is very common among our FRoman Catholic FRiends.
If college presidents want to go their own way, fine, let them leave the church money behind too. It’s their business if they think God has changed his teachings, I have not heard from Him on any changes.
She ventured wrong.
Idiots can’t see the reason the church has lost membership is because the church has lost its way and thinks the bible is wrong and humans are right.
if they’re not celibate, they should be expelled.. not “included”
at least, at Christian colleges!
or the parishioners who show up dressed as wolves in sheeps’ clothing?
oh.. sorry, I forgot, that the clergy
Grew up Methodist, wondering why no one in the hierarchy gets a clue ... the laity don’t want this, they want Biblical teaching and if the Bible is no longer taught in the UMC, people will leave.
I married a Mennonite farmer. They are going through the same contortions. We now go to an evangelical church where the Bible is taught.
If you want to argue for a more "modern" "interpretation" of the Bible, then do so. But spare me the stupidity of the argument that changing the UMC's position on homosexuality is going to reverse our declining membership. There is no evidence of this. Every denomination changing its stance is still bleeding membership.
Methodist / UMC / Ex-UMC ping...
Your Methodist College should not be serving man, but serving rather God.
Read Leviticus 18.
Read Leviticus 18:22 to be more precise.
No the problem is the church has not stayed true to the Lord it pretends to serve
The cultural rot picks up speed.
PRECISELY!!
It is, after all, the responsibility of the church of Christ to be "up to date" with popular morality.
Te decline in membership and attendance is caused by quite the opposite. That is, the decline in morality and Biblical teaching in the official church. They double down on the road to hell.
ALL.
Hiding behind this "Caucus" thing is the height of cowardice.
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