Nearly 7300 Churches Have Left the United Methodist Denomination Over Progressive LGBTQ Stance
(Juicy Ecumenism) As of Saturday, November 18, nearly 7,300 churches have exited United Methodism, more than 24 percent of total U.S. churches. But some churches, despite voting by the required two thirds of the congregation, have been petulantly denied exit, including four in the North Georgia Annual Conference on Saturday. Such churches are then punished and/or shattered.
Iowa approved 59 more exits, and Missouri approved 20 more. But the big vote was in North Georgia, which approved 261 more exits. Late last year, North Georgia’s departing bishop, on nearly her last day before moving to another conference, instituted a ban on further exits. But 186 churches litigated and won, forcing the conference, under a new bishop, to ratify more exits.
But the special North Georgia Annual Conference on Saturday refused exit for four churches. There was no justification but petulance. These churches had.. to continue reading click here.
This article was written by Mark Tooley and published at Juicy Ecumenism.
Yeah, but they did nothing to try and salvage the denomination from the heretics that took it over.
They should have run them out of the churches with whips.
Instead they just allowed the heretics to defile God's house.
The replacement for the UMC on the conservative side will suffer the same punishment as the liberal side will for abandoning God's temple to the sodomites.
Would be interesting to see what happens to sodomite lover Adam Hamilton's church (in Leawood, KS) church. They move UMC pastors around all the time but never touched him because of the size of his congregation. he's been there 33 years, unheard of in the Methodist church.
The UMC feared losing people if he left. That tells you they a) knew people were only there for the celebrity book author; and b) were not afraid of losing souls who did not believe, they were afraid of losing $$$.