My wife and I were raised United Methodist...got married in a UM church...taught Sunday School and youth groups as young married adults in the UM church...raised our own kids in the UM church.
And then in the early 2000s, the UM church took a hard LEFT turn and has been hammer-down ever since. It started with the "reconciling" UM congregations in the early 1990s, and the sin took full bloom thereafter. And that adherence to sin...has since rent asunder the denomination into two. GOOD!
We left the UM church for good (organized religion, really) about 8 years ago and haven't been back -- and it absolutely WARMS my soul to know that the primary UM denomination is dying off and flaming out because of their capitulation to Satan in this world. Not a nice admission, but there it is. And I'm totally rooting for the offshoot Global Methodist Church to take root, continue to grow, and overcome its hideous origins.
My wife and I were raised United Methodist...got married in a UM church...taught Sunday School and youth groups as young married adults in the UM church...raised our own kids in the UM church.
And then in the early 2000s, the UM church took a hard LEFT turn and has been hammer-down ever since. It started with the "reconciling" UM congregations in the early 1990s, and the sin took full bloom thereafter. And that adherence to sin...has since rent asunder the denomination into two. GOOD!
We left the UM church for good (organized religion, really) about 8 years ago and haven't been back -- and it absolutely WARMS my soul to know that the primary UM denomination is dying off and flaming out because of their capitulation to Satan in this world. Not a nice admission, but there it is. And I'm totally rooting for the offshoot Global Methodist Church to take root, continue to grow, and overcome its hideous origins.