More than 4,000 congregations have left the United Methodist Church (UMC) this year over its embrace of LGBTQ+ ideology.
More than 4,000 congregations have left the United Methodist Church this year over its embrace of LGBTQ+ ideology, Catholic News Agency Just the past weekend, 60 congregations left the UMC in Michigan, as did 250 in Kentucky. By Tuesday afternoon 4,876 Methodist churches completed the process to break away from the UMC, Jay Therrell,
“According to UM News, the official news-gathering agency of the UMC, 4,645 churches officially split from the UMC so far this year.
“We absolutely believe that the United Methodist Church is drifting day by day ever more progressive,” Therrell said. “We have bishops all across the globe who are completely violating the Book of Discipline. They are allowing all sorts of things to happen that violate various paragraphs, much of it to do with human sexuality.”
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