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The Future of the Global Methodist Church is in the Past
An Inaccurate Comparison
Recently, as the administrator of the 11, member United Methodist Clergy Facebook group, I deleted a send that was offensive.
The upload was about the Methodist Episcopal Church South (MECS), which, in just before the American Civil War, broke off from the Methodist Episcopal Church so they could continue to stickiness to slavery and reject free abolitionist authorities. The send compared the MECS to the Wesleyan Covenant Association’s novel splinter denomination (the Global Methodist Church) that is so determined to stickiness to anti-gay hysteria that they are willing to crack away from The United Methodist Church.
Traditionalists on the Facebook team were unsurprisingly unhappy at organism compared to the slaveholding Methodist Episcopal Church, South. They complained and so I deleted it.
But I deleted it because there’s a more correct and more recent parallel to the Global Methodist Church in our history, and churches and pastors should know our history
The Global Methodist Church in the Public Square: Restraint and Modesty
By Walter B. Fenton
One of the running jokes among students at the divinity school I attended went like this: “We are all at the divinity school because we did not gain accepted at the regulation school.” Like all such witticisms, it was amusing because most of us knew it was at least half true. We knew attending the regulation school could lead to a career in politics, and a good number of us yearned for that calling.
Truth be told, inside many a clergyperson beats the heart of a budding politician. So, it is not surprising many are happy to openly share their political opinions on a host of matters, and some even do so from their pulpits on Sunday mornings. When done sparingly, and with dignity and respect, we do recognize pastors who speak in the midst of a crisis or address issues of great import. We are particularly grateful for those who ground such messages in Scripture and in the confessions of faith shared by Christians down through the ages.
All Christ followers, whether clergy or laity, are obliged to addr
Stances of Faiths on Diverse Issues: The United Methodist Church
In May , the General Conference voted to remove longstanding bans on the ordination of LGBTQ+ clergy and the celebration of same-sex marriages by clergy and in churches. These changes became fully effective on January 1,
BACKGROUND
The UMC traces its origins to the Methodist movement initiated in the midth century by Anglican priest John Wesley and his brother Charles. The current structure of the UMC was established in through the union of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church. The church is founded on three basic principles:
- Do no harm.
- Do good.
- Practice the ordinances of God, including prayer, Bible reading, worship, and the Lord's Supper.
The global church structure mirrors the United States government with legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The legislative branch, the General Conference, meets every four years to set church policy. Approximately 1, delegates (half lay leaders, half clergy) gather to consider revisions to the Book of Resolutions and the Book of D
Global Methodist Church reacts to UMC votes to permit LGBT clergy, same-sex weddings
The Global Methodist Church has issued an official response to the United Methodist Church's General Conference votes to drop the denomination's decades-old ban on ordaining noncelibate homosexuals and authorize the blessing of homosexual weddings.
UMC General Conference delegates voted this week via consent calendar to take away assorted rules from the denomination's Book of Discipline, shifting its stance on multiple LGBT issues.
Launched in as a conservative alternative to the UMC at a time when many churches were planning to leave the mainline Protestant denomination, the GMC issued a statement Wednesday stating that it "do[es] not have any affiliation with their decisions, nor act we wish to comment or provide commentary on the actions of other religious organizations."
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