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Just imagine what's gonna happen in 20 years when all the Mexicans and Guatemalans vote pro-life and for traditional marriage.
"B-B-But, you were supposed to be for Liberation and Redistribution!!! How can you lovely Brown People betray your White Allies!?"
Lupfer believes the likely schismatic pro-LGBT Methodists will “forge new coalitions and pursue [their] version of social holiness (???) without hindrance by American conservatives or by the African United Methodists whose beliefs it has so long abhorred,” resulting in “fascinating merger possibilities with Lutherans, Episcopalians or others.”
While the expected split may see the dividing line drawn between the wealthy American and the poorer African Methodist churches, the Africans are stalwart in their support of traditional Biblical morality, despite the threat of a loss of financial support.
“Africans are not children in need of western enlightenment when it comes to the church’s sexual ethics,” declared Dr. Jerry Kulah, Dean of Theology at the United Methodist University in Liberia, during a presentation at the UMC convention. “We do not need to hear a progressive U.S. bishop lecture us about our need to ‘grow up.’”
“The vast majority of African United Methodists will never, ever trade Jesus and the truth of the Bible for money,” affirmed Kulah, who also noted that in contrast with the UMC in the U.S., “the Church in Africa is growing in leaps and bounds because we are committed to biblical Christianity.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/methodists-make-history-vote-against-allowing-homosexual-marriage-lgbt-clergy
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Furthermore, their actions seem to confirm the fears of our founding father, John Wesley. About five years before his demise, John Wesley had expressed his fears about the future of our church in regards to its continued commitment and submission to the Scripture and discipline that govern us. He said, “I am not afraid that the people called Methodist should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America [in Africa and the rest of the world]. But I am afraid, lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case, unless they hold fast both to the doctrine, spirit and discipline with which they first set out”. When we abandon the clear teaching of Scripture in favor of some philosophies and ideologies of contemporary society, we cease to exist within God’s parameter of grace.
The Roman Catholic Church is collapsing also and it is not generally considered “liberal”.
To whom are the RC Church losing followers? Some are just leaving and not attending any Church, but when others leave they mostly flock to conservative Churches.
I think one reason for its decline is in fact that it is too liberal.
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To the liberal-progressive bishops: Do not lead us astray.
You do not have the authority to bless sin.
The Church is imploding. Do not accelerate its decline with heresy.
Bishops are promoting the idea of sacramental sodomy. Repent!
Bishops are promoting the idea of sacramental sodomy. Repent!
People cannot see a problem they refuse to acknowledge even exists.
https://notthebee.com/article/you-do-not-have-the-authority-to-bless-sin-one-man-calvin-robinson-stands-alone-to-try-and-save-the-anglican-church
Calvin Robinson
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To the liberal-progressive bishops: Do not lead us astray.
You do not have the authority to bless sin.
The Church is imploding. Do not accelerate its decline with heresy.
Bishops are promoting the idea of sacramental sodomy. Repent!
Patrick says
Bishops are promoting the idea of sacramental sodomy. Repent!
What is sacramental sodomy?
An Alabama megachurch just left the United Methodist Church over LGBT politics, the latest in a mass exodus of churches from the UMC
My first thought was of the Pearly Gates and how stupid this statement was.
Hundreds of congregations exit United Methodist Church at regional conferences
... Many other UMC congregations left the denomination over the past year "largely due to issues with the denomination's ongoing debate over its official stance on LGBT issues," Christian Post reports:
With these latest disaffiliations, 2,095 U.S. congregations have withdrawn from the UMC since 2019, representing roughly 7% of United Methodist churches in the U.S., according to the denomination's news outlet.
SBC loses 457,000 members, 416 congregations in 2022, the largest decline in a century
The denomination, which has traditionally been conservative, has been embroiled with scandal as woke elements in leadership try to steer the SBC into the same theological heresy that has made much of the mainline Protestant church completely irrelevant...
SBC loses 457,000 members, 416 congregations in 2022, the largest decline in a century
The denomination, which has traditionally been conservative, has been embroiled with scandal as woke elements in leadership try to steer the SBC into the same theological heresy that has made much of the mainline Protestant church completely irrelevant...
SBC loses 457,000 members, 416 congregations in 2022, the largest decline in a century
You know, sometimes I scroll right past things that are too bizarre because I think, "There's no way this isn't a parody."
American "progressive Christians" are pushing their Western sexual values on African churches (you know, colonization) and have alienated an entire continent of Christians.
1.2 million in a single day, gone. 10% of the church, gone. Just like that.
Methodism in Africa, which outnumbers Methodists in the US for the time being, is thriving. But now it will have to thrive away from the United Methodist Church and take the form of either independent Methodism or join the conservative Global Methodist denomination.
In their efforts to be inclusive, the UMC has driven away now more than 20% of its members in the last few years.
The Declaration
Decision of the Ivory Coast Annual Conference
Whereas the United Methodist Church from the postponed 2020 General
Conference held from April 23 to May 3, 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina, in
the United States, is not based on any biblical and disciplinary values,
Considering that the new United Methodist Church is now based on sociocultural
and contextual values which have consumed its doctrinal and
disciplinary integrity,
Considering that the new United Methodist Church has preferred to sacrifice
its honorability and integrity to honor the LGBT,
Considering that the new United Methodist Church which distances itself from
the Holy Scriptures is no longer suitable for the Annual Conference of Côte
d'Ivoire,
The Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church-Côte d'Ivoire Ivory,
gathered in its extraordinary session on Tuesday, May 28, 2024 at the Jubilee
temple of Cocody, for reasons of conscience, before God and before his word,
supreme authority in matters of faith and life,
Decides to leave the United Methodist Church denomination .
Done in Abidjan, May 28, 2024
For the Bishop Benjamin Boni Conference
Source: https://www.fratmat.info/article/239957/societe/eglise-methodisteunie-la-conference-annuelle-de-cote-divoire-dit-non-a-lhomosexualite
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