What comes next? That's easy: a purge guided by the hierarchy, auditing pastors for thoughtcrime with the help of travelling snitches. It's been happening for a while now, where activists visit a church and make their lists of anyone with a traditional bible-based view. I know of one pastor who was told that if he didn't retire his next assignment would be Guam. I'm sure Guam has its charms, but it was used as a threat to make his life difficult. I know another who retired after getting such an audit, after the congregation held a vote to leave the denomination. The vote failed very narrowly, with a number of out-of-area voters who rarely if ever attended but somehow had made their way onto the membership rolls.
At the denominational level, the activists used every trick in the book and then some, taking advantage of covid travel restrictions and the absence of African traditionalists (who were very dependable defenders of the original church rules) to make rule changes that overturned the traditional ones. The similarity to communist government takeovers is remarkable.
Most of the UMC churchgoers, like other denominations, don't involve themselves in administration, the same way most people don't get involved in local politics. Like the communist takeover of a country, it's been a slow infiltration by sworn enemies into positions of power. Unlike communist countries, the members can, and will, leave once they see what's going on. In the meantime the traitorous degenerates will consolidate power, funding themselves by dismantling the valuable real estate they've managed to steal until there's nothing left. And by real estate I'm referring to the actual land and buildings of local congregations, and the assets of numerous well-funded charitable organizations.
Make no mistake: the vast majority of UMC churchgoers and pastors never signed up for this and didn't want it. A large number are still unaware of what happened and the consequences. It was a planned hostile takeover.
What comes next? That's easy: a purge guided by the hierarchy, auditing pastors for thoughtcrime with the help of travelling snitches. It's been happening for a while now, where activists visit a church and make their lists of anyone with a traditional bible-based view. I know of one pastor who was told that if he didn't retire his next assignment would be Guam. I'm sure Guam has its charms, but it was used as a threat to make his life difficult. I know another who retired after getting such an audit, after the congregation held a vote to leave the denomination. The vote failed very narrowly, with a number of out-of-area voters who rarely if ever attended but somehow had made their way onto the membership rolls.
At the denominational level, the activists used every trick in the book and then some, taking advantage of covid travel restrictions and the absence of African traditionalists (who were very dependable defenders of the original church rules) to make rule changes that overturned the traditional ones. The similarity to communist government takeovers is remarkable.
Most of the UMC churchgoers, like other denominations, don't involve themselves in administration, the same way most people don't get involved in local politics. Like the communist takeover of a country, it's been a slow infiltration by sworn enemies into positions of power. Unlike communist countries, the members can, and will, leave once they see what's going on. In the meantime the traitorous degenerates will consolidate power, funding themselves by dismantling the valuable real estate they've managed to steal until there's nothing left. And by real estate I'm referring to the actual land and buildings of local congregations, and the assets of numerous well-funded charitable organizations.
Make no mistake: the vast majority of UMC churchgoers and pastors never signed up for this and didn't want it. A large number are still unaware of what happened and the consequences. It was a planned hostile takeover.