Nearly 1,000 delegates representing 12 million church members are on hand in Tampa for today's start of the 11-day 2012 United Methodist General Conference, where homosexuality is the top issue of controversy.
"Currently, the church's official stances are biblical and require clergy to be monogamous in traditional marriage, or celibate, if single, and also [prohibit] any celebration of same-sex unions in Methodist churches," he reports. "Obviously, the liberal side of the church very much wants to change that and will be pushing very hard and knows that time is running out for its cause."
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TONY DIGIROLAMO- THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SHOULD TAKE A LONG LOOK BACK AT WHEN THE DECLINE IN THE UMC BEGAN. I'M NOT A ROCKET SCIENTIST BUT THE CHURCH DEFECTED FROM THE WORD OF GOD AND THEN MEMBERSHIP FELL LIKE A ROCK.
Asbury Theological Seminary President Timothy C. Tennent said this in the Culture Shock post, days before the General Conference: "We were once a powerful evangelistic movement. Now, we are forever searching for new ways to manage our decline. Endless studies and reports and commissions and re-structuring and new slogans (Open hearts, open minds, open doors) have ensued over the years. None of these well intentioned initiatives have halted – or even really understood – the nature of this decline." TIMOTHYTENNENT.COM
I think they know the nature of the decline!
They are blinded by their own policies of "Social Justice" and homsexuality is at the top of that agenda and the reason for the the exodus.
The culture has infiltrated the church and where it once was an influence in the world, that for this church is over.
Now the secular world is changing the church, and it's leaders.
Timothy Tennent again says, "Finally, we must be a people of prayer and repentance. The true church is always characterized by prayer and a spirit of repentance. We have not been faithful to God..."
Indeed that is so sir. Indeed it is.
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