At that General Conference, delegates removed the church’s longtime stance that sex is only for marriage between husband and wife. Adultery and extramarital sex were removed as chargeable offenses for clergy, along with homosexual behavior.
Read moreMethodist Church Says The Term ‘Husband’ and ‘Wife’ is Offensive
Terminology such as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ may sound inoffensive but it makes assumptions about a family or personal life that is not the reality for many people.
Read moreHuh? Bible College Fires Professor for Tweet Against Homosexuality
"Homosexuality is invading the church," Edwards tweeted on Feb. 19. "Evangelicals no longer see the severity of this because they're busy apologizing for their apparently barbaric homophobia, whether or not it's true.”
Two Christian Seminaries Bring Suit Against Biden Vaccine Mandate
Because this vaccine mandate, handed down by the Biden administration, would effectively turn religious institutions into coercive arms of the administrative state. “It is unacceptable for the government to force religious institutions to become coercive extensions of state power.”
Read moreBritish Methodist Church Allows Homosexual Marriage in Momentous Vote
The Rev Sonia Hicks, newly elected as the Methodists’ first black female president at the weekend, said it was a “historic day for our church”. She urged people “to support each other respecting our differences”.
Read moreMethodist Denomination Splits Over Homosexuality, Liberals Form New Group
“There are no doctrinal litmus tests in the movement. We are moving beyond the supremacy of a single belief system,” said the ‘Rev’. Janet G. McKeithen, a member of the Liberation Connexion working group.
Read moreMethodist Church Proposes Historic Split Over Gay Marriage And LGBT Pastors
Ordained Lesbian Methodist pastors protesting for LGBTQ Ordination
In 2016, dozens of United Methodist clergy came out as lesbian, gay or bisexual defying the ban on "self-avowed practicing homosexuals" in ministry and essentially daring their supervisors to discipline them.
Read morePro-Gay Churches are Shrinking, Not Growing
The attempt to patronize to the LGBTQ community and compromise on God’s Word does not salvage churches, it savages them. It does not care for churches, it kills them. It does not prosper people, it impoverishes them.
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Liberal Methodist Leaders Plot Ways to Resist World Church Vote on LGBT Ordination
Last month, 300 United Methodist clergy and laymen gathered outside their denomination’s regional headquarters in Garner, N.C., to protest a recent vote that bans LGBT people from marriage and ordination.
Read moreIn a Historical Decision, United Methodists Confirm Biblical Sexuality
This is both a warning and an inspiring motivation for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, itself facing a cultural feminist onslaught from within the western sectors of the Church.
Read moreUnited Methodists Face Possible Split Over LBGT Ordination
Adventists would be wise to take note of what is happening in the Methodist denomination, and consider the train of events—since their 1956 decision to ordain women—that brought them to this point.
Read moreMethodist Church Struggle Reveals Where Liberal Adventism Is Heading
It takes little imagination to see how closely the Adventist Church controversy over ordaining women parallels the current Methodist situation.
Read moreMississippi Church Votes 175-6 to Leave Methodist Church
They cite as a reason for their departure, an "Increasingly non-biblical worldview" among the United Methodist Church Conference.
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