Post by davidsf on Feb 26, 2019 18:28:18 GMT -8
To give you a little background, the United Methodist Church (UMC) General Conference is worldwide. As you’d expect, the western representatives are not as conservative as those in the rest of the world, principally in Europe and Africa.
For some time, decades as I understand it, the UMC has been pretty ambiguous regarding ordaining homosexual clergy and performing same sex marriages.
Their Bishops were supposed to be studying the issue, even though their “Book of Disciplines” specifically proscribes such behavior.
This “special conference” was called to resolve this and other issues and the vote is now in.
the quote is from an article in Churchleaders magazine
in my opinion, this is the only Biblically based decision, but I question why they even had to call special session to make it.
This is is a church, and a church is supposed to be guided by the Holy Spirit. This kind of issue is not even secondary... it’s minor, or what I consider “a non-essential” issue.
if you read the article, you will see a lot of the same liberal tactics we see when we try to argue with liberals...
it it saddens me
For some time, decades as I understand it, the UMC has been pretty ambiguous regarding ordaining homosexual clergy and performing same sex marriages.
Their Bishops were supposed to be studying the issue, even though their “Book of Disciplines” specifically proscribes such behavior.
This “special conference” was called to resolve this and other issues and the vote is now in.
In the final day of the United Methodist Church’s Special Session of the General Conference, the denomination voted to take an official stance on homosexuality. After decades of ambiguity, the UMC’s General Conference has voted to hold a traditional approach to marriage and ordaining clergy. Moving forward, the UMC will not allow same-sex weddings, nor will it ordain LGBTQ+ clergy.
the quote is from an article in Churchleaders magazine
in my opinion, this is the only Biblically based decision, but I question why they even had to call special session to make it.
This is is a church, and a church is supposed to be guided by the Holy Spirit. This kind of issue is not even secondary... it’s minor, or what I consider “a non-essential” issue.
if you read the article, you will see a lot of the same liberal tactics we see when we try to argue with liberals...
it it saddens me
