You are witnessing the terrible rise of Connectionalism.

This could be the end for the Church of Vagino-Anus AKA the United Methodist Church.

Christian Post:

The United Methodist Church’s highest court has ruled that congregations seeking to leave the denomination over theological differences cannot do so via a church closure provision.

Recently, many congregations have left the UMC via a Book of Discipline measure known as Paragraph 2549, which is centered on how to officially close down a church property.

The United Methodist Judicial Council released a ruling last Saturday, known as Decision Number 1512, which stated that congregations cannot use Paragraph 2549 to exit the UMC.

According to the decision, the UMC’s Trust Clause, which holds that all church properties are held for the benefit of the whole denomination, cannot be disregarded as it would be by using Paragraph 2549 to disaffiliate.

“Connectionalism is a bedrock principle of United Methodist constitutional polity, and the Trust Clause is its foundational element,” stated the ruling.

For those of you who don’t remember why some churches would want to flee this organization, here’s a quick reminder:

In the UMC, doing what the Bible explicitly bans you from doing is just fine, but some goofy bureaucratic bullshit like “connectionalism” has to be followed to the letter.

“Disaffiliation is a radical departure from connectionalism, and, therefore, church property can be released from the Trust Clause only to the extent authorized by Church law.”

The Judicial Council went on to state that Paragraph 2549 “cannot be construed or used as legislation permitting the ‘gracious exit’ of local churches because it applies to church closure and the sale of property, not disaffiliation.”

“Paragraph 2549 does not give an annual conference disciplinary authority to close a local church and then provide all of the assets to the exiting congregants,” the ruling continued.

“Paragraph 2549 is not an appropriate provision of the Discipline for exiting with property. The provisions of ¶2549 do not align with what is being asked for, which is ‘disaffiliation’ and asking that the trust clause be broken.”

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For decades, the UMC debated whether to change its rules to allow the blessing of same-sex unions, the ordination of noncelibate homosexuals, and the funding of LGBT advocacy groups, eventually doing so at General Conference earlier this year.

At a special session of the General Conference held in February 2019, delegates voted to add Paragraph 2553 to the Book of Discipline. The measure, which expired at the end of 2023, created a process for congregations to leave the UMC over the sexual ethics debate.

Approximately 7,500 congregations disaffiliated from the denomination during that time, with thousands joining the recently launched theologically conservative Global Methodist Church.

It’s sad.

But I’m not sure the Methodists were ever that great.

This fruitcake female pastor says “Jesus would take women to clinics for abortions. He would be a clinic escort.”

Is this the church of Satan? Sure sounds like it!! Geeze.

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— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) September 18, 2024

Remember last month, when the delegates of this “church” voted for faggot priests?

The blacks are not on board with the gay.

But whites are so obsessed with the gay, they don’t mind losing some blacks in order to promote the gay.

Daily Mail:

More than one million United Methodists have quit the church overnight over new rules about homosexuality.

During a North Carolina conference in early May, the United Methodist Church – a global denomination of Protestantism based in the US – changed some regulations to allow gay pastors and same-sex marriage.

The Ivory Coast division – which has an estimated 1.2 million followers – responded by accusing the international leaders of ‘deviating from the Holy Scriptures’ and ‘sacrificing its honor and integrity to honor the LGBTQ community’.

Bishop Benjamin Boni, who is president of the division, said it voted to separate from the umbrella church during a May 28 gathering in the Jubilee Temple of Cocody, Abidjan, on the southern coast of the West African country.

He said in a statement that the decision to separate after more than 20 years was made ‘for reasons of conscience’.

The move marks a huge blow to the United Methodists Church, as the Ivory Coast division known as EMUCI is the largest overseas jurisdiction, accounting for around 12 percent of the worldwide membership.

EMUCI joined the United Methodist Church in 2002. The umbrella church was the result of a merge between the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church in 1968.

Questions surrounding homosexuality have been a point of contention for the church for many years, with it previously upholding bans on same-sex marriage and the inclusion of homosexual pastors.

The first openly gay Bishop in the United Methodist Church Karen Oliveto spoke about the divisions last year.

Karen Oliveto

‘There’s a whole segment of the church that’s leaving because they don’t want to be an inclusive church,’ she told CBS News Colorado.

‘They’re building a church based on who they’re leaving out. And you have to wonder: If you’re building a church on how you are leaving out, are you letting Jesus in?’

Protestantism is basically a fully anal religion at this point, and the Pope is trying to do the same thing to Catholicism.

This “church” isn’t going be around for long

I wonder if this will lead to more or less homosexual targeting of young boys at the United Methodist “Church.”

Washington Examiner:

Delegates of the United Methodists voted overwhelmingly to repeal its opposition to LGBT clergy on Wednesday.

The vote at the church’s General Conference, which tallied 692-51, saw the church remove its ban on “self-avowed practicing homosexuals” from serving in the church as ordained or appointed ministers. This new rule will go into effect starting Friday when the General Conference will finish.

“With the approvals and acceptance of the things today by the General Conference, we’re beginning to see the unwinding, unraveling, dismantling of the heterosexism, the homophobia, the hurt, and the harm of The United Methodist Church,” said Rev. David Meredith, a gay and retired elder.

Beyond removing the church’s ban on hiring homosexual clergy, the church also approved of a new measure that forbids district superintendents from penalizing clergy for performing a same-sex wedding or for not performing one. The measure also prevents either forbidding or requiring a church to host a same-sex wedding.

We’re living in hell.

It always starts with a woman

I wonder how many congregations joined because they wanted more and more anal inside of the church?

None?

Oh.

Well, it seems this is… bad policy?

Christian Post:

The number of congregations that have left the United Methodist Church amid the schism over the denomination’s stance on homosexuality has passed the 7,000 mark.

Over the weekend, the number of churches that have disaffiliated from the UMC since 2019 reached 7,286, according to UM News, with over 5,200 leaving this year alone.

This total includes 366 churches leaving the Kentucky Conference, 349 churches leaving the North Alabama Conference, 334 churches leaving the North Georgia Conference, 326 churches leaving the North Carolina Conference and 317 churches leaving the Indiana Annual Conference.

Of the 334 congregations that have disaffiliated from the North Georgia Conference since 2019, 261 were given approval to disaffiliate over the weekend at a special session held by the regional body.

This is basically all women pushing this.

There are some men in the photos, but I assume those are the gays that joined.

A lot of the”liberal” churches that still remain fly anal flags and participate in anal parades

It looks like, just maybe, letting women take over the leadership of your church wasn’t really a great idea, huh?

Didn’t Saint Paul say something about that, actually? Something about women in the church?

I seem to recall that he did in fact say something about that.

This is not Christianity

Honestly, I don’t totally even remember what “United Methodist” means. I would assume they are methodists, but probably closer to Episcopalian than to “charismatic.”

All of the “mainline protestant” groups have already gone full-anal.

AP:

More than 6,000 United Methodist congregations — a fifth of the U.S. total — have now received permission to leave the denomination amid a schism over theology and the role of LGBTQ people in the nation’s second-largest Protestant denomination.

Those figures emerge following the close of regular meetings in June for the denomination’s regional bodies, known as annual conferences. The departures began with a trickle in 2019 — when the church created a four-year window of opportunity for U.S. congregations to depart over LGBTQ-related issues — and cascaded to its highest level this year.

Church law forbids the marriage or ordination of “self-avowed, practicing homosexuals,” but many conservatives have chosen to leave amid a growing defiance of those bans in many U.S. churches and conferences.

Many of the departing congregations are joining the Global Methodist Church, a denomination created last year by conservatives breaking from the UMC, while others are going independent or joining different denominations.

Some 6,182 congregations have received approval to disaffiliate since 2019, according to an unofficial tally by United Methodist News Service, which has been tracking votes by annual conferences. That figure is 4,172 for this year alone, it reported.

Some annual conferences may approve more departures at special sessions later this year, according to the Rev. Jay Therrell, president of the Wesleyan Covenant Association, a conservative caucus that has advocated for the exiting churches. While most UMC congregations are remaining, many of the departing congregations are large, and denominational officials are bracing for significant budget cuts in 2024.

The numbers of exiting churches are higher than conservatives originally estimated, Therrell said.

Legal wrangles have largely been resolved over how much compensation the departing congregations must pay for their property and other financial obligations.

“For the most part, bishops and other annual conference leaders have been very gracious, and I deeply appreciate that,” Therrell said. “There have been some small exceptions to that, and those are unfortunate, but we’re grateful that cooler and calmer heads have prevailed.”

Bishop Thomas Bickerton, president of the UMC’s Council of Bishops, said the departures were disappointing.

“I don’t think any of us want to see any of our churches leave,” he said. “We’re called to be the body of Christ, we’re called to be unified. There’s never been a time when the church has not been without conflict, but there’s been a way we’ve worked through that.”

But for those who want “to go and live out their Christian faith in a new expression, we wish God’s blessings on them,” he said.

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With these departures, progressives are expected to propose changing church law at the next General Conference in 2024 to allow for same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ people.

All of the churches are collapsing because of this liberalization.

If people want “a shittier version of Netflix,” they can just turn on Netflix on Sunday morning.

The Catholic Church should be positioned in a unique place to grow, but everyone in America knows that the Catholic Church is associated with the Democrat Party, and even though they don’t technically support anal and abortion, most of their members in America do. And then you have the fact that the Catholic Church is run by the “Anal Pope.”

Although we’d have to check the numbers, I think a lot of people dropping out of these anal churches a

re just making their own little congregations, which are likely to turn into weird cults and lose more members.

With the whole country going full-satan, you’d think there’d be a rival brewing. But there is no sign of that.

In the current year, now that it is clear to everyone that yes, the homosexuals are coming for your kids, there is some resistance to the homosexual agenda.

However, when you consider just how aggressive this is, this child gay sex training, and the hormones and genital mutilations… the backlash is not really proportionate.

You can say “finally, people are pushing back,” but the only reason there is pushback is that they are openly and publicly doing these things to little kids.

Life Site News:

Resistance to the LGBT agenda now spans legislatures, schools, and churches across the country and world, bringing division among Catholic and Anglican bishops, and now among Methodist pastors as well.

More than 5,000 congregations have left the United Methodist Church (UMC), the second-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., over its pro-LGBT stance. The “disaffiliation” movement saw churches leaving in droves over the past several weeks, with UM News, the official news service of the UMC, reporting the disaffiliation of 5,458 churches just this year and 25,500 Methodist churches remaining.

According to reports, the mass exodus of Methodist churches comes after “liberal leaders in the UMC disregarded a 2019 vote upholding the church’s ban on ordaining LGBT clergy and officiating at or hosting same-sex weddings.”

Democracy!

In 2022, Fox News reported that “several conservative members of the Methodist clergy” stated that “far from settling the issue, however, the 2019 vote was disregarded by many liberal leaders within the UMC who decided to remain in the denomination while commissioning openly gay clergy and officiating same-sex weddings anyway.”

In 2019, the Methodist General Conference also “approved a church law allowing UMC churches to leave with their church property if two-thirds of their congregation and regional governor body approved,” paving the way for the current mass exodus over the open acceptance of the LGBT agenda.

The backlash confronting the attempt to normalize homosexuality and transgender ideology and practices within the Methodist church is being witnessed similarly in legislatures at home and abroad, as well as the commercial market and within the episcopal hierarchy of the Catholic and Anglican churches.

Numerous states have now banned to varying degrees the mutilation and chemical castration of children through so-called “transitional” surgeries and puberty blockers. The government of Uganda recently increased its criminal penalties for sodomy and homosexual child rape. The Anglican bishops of several African countries broke communion with the Anglican church of England for its approval of the blessing of same-sex unions.

I hope that the backlash continues.

I hope that people realize that they can’t go back to “just gay marriage.”

We have to roll this all back, completely. We have to reinstate sodomy laws.

We have to follow the Bible.