"Amid reports that United Methodist leaders are considering dividing over LGBT disputes, the
denomination’s top bishop on Tuesday asked members to recommit to remaining together, even though he described their community as having a “broken heart”.
Ough, the incoming president of the Council of Bishops, said he was responding to a flood of social media leaks about secret meetings top church leaders were having in the last week about the possibility of separating. The meeting is called a General Conference.
Pressure has grown since same-sex marriage started to become legal, meaning more pastors are performing such weddings for congregants — or coming out themselves — and traditional members are pushing for more accountability to United Methodist law and even for trials of pastors who violate it.
Late Tuesday, members voted 428-364 for the bishops to meet immediately and make a recommendation to the Conference about how the church can move forward on the issue of human sexuality." yahoo
For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality......
Jude 1:4 NIV
Ough, the incoming president of the Council of Bishops, said he was responding to a flood of social media leaks about secret meetings top church leaders were having in the last week about the possibility of separating. The meeting is called a General Conference.
Pressure has grown since same-sex marriage started to become legal, meaning more pastors are performing such weddings for congregants — or coming out themselves — and traditional members are pushing for more accountability to United Methodist law and even for trials of pastors who violate it.
Late Tuesday, members voted 428-364 for the bishops to meet immediately and make a recommendation to the Conference about how the church can move forward on the issue of human sexuality." yahoo
For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality......
Jude 1:4 NIV
