Methodists Look Like They Are Going to Split

Good for the Methodist secessionists!  T

The Methodists been falling over a cliff for the past 30 years and now maybe some of them got wisdom from fearing The Lord and realized that condoning sinful behavior from people who CLAIM to be Christ followers...is anti-scriptural.

The United Methodist Church pulled off a surprise, no, make that a shocking upset over the forces of spiritual darkness by voting NO on the proposed pro-LGBTQP ‘One Church Plan‘ at meetings that lasted over the weekend and into the past few days. But that victory, tenuous as it may be, comes at the cost of a huge church split right down the middle. Watchers on both sides are predicting a mass exodus of pro-LGBTQP people by the time all the dust from this battle settles.

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:3-5 (KJV)

Now granted, the UMC has not been, since the days of John Wesley, anything remotely resembling a real Bible believing church. Their own Book of Discipline says that the “United Methodist Church is part of the holy catholic church…”. But even so, this vote was very, very surprising. Especially to the forces of the LGBTQP who thought for sure this would be a slam-dunk for their agenda.

If you would have said to me 28 years ago when I first got saved, that I would live to see the day where the homosexual and transsexual movement would battle for control of the heart and soul of the professing Christian church, I would have said you were nuts. Stark raving mad. This is still the Church Age, after all, not even the Tribulation! But boy, oh boy, are we being pressed right up against that edge. That can only mean one thing as I see it.

Flight #777 on Titus213 Airlines now boarding…time to go Home.

Conservative Christians Just Retook the United Methodist Church
FROM THE ATLANTIC: At a special conference in St. Louis this week, convened specifically to address divisions over LGBTQ issues, members voted to toughen prohibitions on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy. This was a surprise: The denomination’s bishops, its top clergy, pushed hard for a resolution that would have allowed local congregations, conferences, and clergy to make their own choices about conducting same-sex marriages and ordaining LGBTQ pastors. This proposal, called the “One Church Plan,” was designed to keep the denomination together. Methodist delegates rejected its recommendations, instead choosing the so-called Traditional Plan, which affirmed the denomination’s teachings against homosexuality.

This is a consequential vote for the future of the United Methodist Church: Many progressive churches will now almost certainly consider leaving the denomination. It’s also a reminder that many Christian denominations, including mainline groups such as the UMC, are still deeply divided over questions of sexuality and gender identity. While the UMC in the United States is roughly evenly divided between those who identify as traditionalists and those who identify as moderates and liberals, it is also a global organization. Many of the growing communities in the Philippines or countries in Africa are committed to theological teachings against same-sex relationships and marriages.

https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/united-methodist-church-splits-right-down-middle-conservatives-vote-no-lgbtqp-one-church-plan/

Do you remember how Paul wrote to Timothy and warned him about people who claimed to be followers of Christ but are actually something else? 

Now look at lots of folks in the Methodist, Lutheran and Catholic religions.  They have the robes, they have the Theological Degrees, they have been ordained...so they have a FORM of Godliness....but they are void of the power of the Holy Spirit.  They refuse to love God's word and instead choose to pick and choose things from the Bible that THEY think should or shouldn't be there.

As we reflect on this desire they have to deny the Word of God, we are reminded what Satan said when he first spoke to Eve in the garden, "Did God REALLY say...?

Paul then exhorts us with what we are to do with people who call themselves brothers and sisters of ours in Christ....but really don't believe in the full council of scripture.  Have nothing to do with them.

2 Timothy 3
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.