God has liberated 40% of United Methodist churches from southern Georgia USA!
From The Christian Post,
More than a third of the congregations that once belonged to a Georgia-based regional body of The United Methodist Church have disaffiliated from the denomination over its ongoing debate over homosexuality.
The issue is not just homosexuality. It is a matter of orthodoxy.
The UMC South Georgia Conference (SGA) voted Sunday to approve the disaffiliation votes of 193 of its reported 486 member congregations, joining thousands of other congregations in the United States that have left their respective UMC regional bodies...
...A spokesperson for the conference directed The Christian Post to a statement by SGA UMC Bishop David Graves, who called the departure of the 193 churches “a day of sadness in the life of the South Georgia Annual Conference.”
It was a day of gladness not one of sadness Bishop!
...According to statistics compiled by UM News, more than 3,500 congregations have left the UMC in recent years, with over 1,800 doing so in 2022 alone.
May they be fruitful and multiply!
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Yes, it is a matter of orthodoxy. If Jesus Christ is the incarnate Son of God, then we are in error when we say that His teachings were time-bound.
ReplyDeleteThose who do not join the exodus must believe that the Gospel is God breathed.
DeleteGood for the Churches that are walking correctly before the Lord, I pray that they will prosper and continue to teach the entire council of God.
ReplyDeleteI am reminded of Amos 7:7...
...This is what he showed me: The Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb, with a plumb line in his hand. And the Lord asked me, "What do you see, Amos?" A plumb line, I replied. Then the Lord said, "Look, I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer. The high places of Isaac will be destroyed and the sanctuaries of Israel will be ruined; with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam."
Anyone who builds without the proper "plumb line" has an incorrect benchmark and the foundations will lead to collapse...