This is exactly why the United Methodist Church is about to be ripped apart into several factions....they've been arguging about whether to "reconcile with" or reject the demands of the militant alphabet crowd for several years now.
There is no about to be it already has. Conservatives won the vote a couple of years ago not to have Gay weddings and Woke clergy but it was ignored by the "leadership". Instead the Woke Mob controlled the Denomination from the top. Those that didn't agree had no choice but to leave. In order to leave you had to buy back your facilities and pay two years of the money that you would normally have given to the parent organization plus pay your share of any retirement of previous preachers. In the 60's when the "older churches" joined the greater denomination they sold their property to the individual conferences one dollar. After that if you built another building you had to receive permission to build it from the conference and they owned it having put zero dollars into it. The largest UMC church in Georgia got out but had to paid 13.1 MILLION Dollars to get out.
Any church that allowed themselves to shutdown with little resistance is little threat to the DS.
Same with any church that does not strongly oppose abortion and LGBT agenda.
This is exactly why the United Methodist Church is about to be ripped apart into several factions....they've been arguging about whether to "reconcile with" or reject the demands of the militant alphabet crowd for several years now.
There is no about to be it already has. Conservatives won the vote a couple of years ago not to have Gay weddings and Woke clergy but it was ignored by the "leadership". Instead the Woke Mob controlled the Denomination from the top. Those that didn't agree had no choice but to leave. In order to leave you had to buy back your facilities and pay two years of the money that you would normally have given to the parent organization plus pay your share of any retirement of previous preachers. In the 60's when the "older churches" joined the greater denomination they sold their property to the individual conferences one dollar. After that if you built another building you had to receive permission to build it from the conference and they owned it having put zero dollars into it. The largest UMC church in Georgia got out but had to paid 13.1 MILLION Dollars to get out.
Babylon the Great in Revelation 17 is the "Mother of harlots." A mother has offspring.