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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With these latest disaffiliations, 2,095 U.S. congregations have withdrawn from the UMC since 2019, representing roughly 7% of United Methodist churches in the U.S., according to the denomination's news outlet.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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