Methodist Church Expects To Split Over LGBTQ Marriage

It’s official. It’s 2020, and the United Methodist Church is expected to split over gay marriage, fracturing the nation’s third-largest denomination.

LGBTQ stands for all things diversity and inclusion unless you maintain a more traditional belief and faith along with fellow Methodists living in global communities such as Africa or the Philippines. Love is love, except if you’re a traditionalist. If you are, you must be homophobic so get out and find God elsewhere.  This split within the Methodist Church confirms that the word COEXIST no longer has meaning in America. It is either the LGBTQ way or the highway and now, traditional Methodists have voted to take the highway.

The United Methodist Church Split – Just Another Example of the Lies White Liberals Tell Themselves About Diversity https://t.co/lXB5GJm7Xm

— RedState (@RedState) January 5, 2020

Seriously, you guys, next, the LGBTQ Community will go to Chick-Fil-A and demand that they only serve a vegan menu, and if customers don’t like it their way, they can get out. Eat your chicken elsewhere. Forget the traditional era of Chick-Fil-A and God’s Chicken. We are now riding out Obama’s legacy in a post-2015 age of “get on the LGBTQ train or get off” — no matter what it is, the LGBTQ rule seems to be dictating every cultural shift in America, even God.

Infiltration is bankrupting the church, and denomination doesn’t matter. Many denominations struggle with the same issue; it is not only the Methodist Church. It started with gay marriage, but now it has moved onto pronouns and transgenderism, and even some ministers and priests blessing abortions and claiming abortionists are modern-day saints.   Once the LGBTQ line is crossed, there’s no limit to what’s okay or not okay. If you accept one part of it, you have to accept all of it EXCEPT traditional values and sacraments.

Here’s an interesting opinion and prediction:

"Assuming that this split actually takes place, what will happen to these two branches, one conservative and the other liberal?" https://t.co/31D5mSOjC3

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 5, 2020

In 2019, “The division, which has been brewing for years, came to an impasse last May when delegates in St. Louis voted 438-384 to ban gay marriage and the inclusion of gay clergy.

“A majority of U.S.-based churches opposed the ‘Traditional Plan’ but were outvoted by conservatives in the U.S., Africa, and the Philippines.”

Assuming that this split actually takes place, what will happen to these two branches, one conservative and the other liberal?

The answer is easy, based on history and common spiritual sense.

History says that the conservative branch will grow, and the liberal branch will diminish.

This has been the pattern for decades, as I documented in 2015, citing a major study dating back to 1972 written by Dean M. Kelley: Why Conservative Churches are Growing: A Study in Sociology of Religion.

As Kelly wrote almost 50 years ago, “Amid the current neglect and hostility toward organized religion in general, the conservative churches, holding to seemingly outmoded theology and making strict demands on their members have equaled or surpassed in growth the early percentage increases of the nation’s population.”

As for the liberal churches, he noted, “The mainline denominations [which were becoming increasingly liberal] will continue to exist on a diminishing scale for decades, perhaps for centuries, and will continue to supply some people with a dilute and undemanding form of meaning, which may be all they want.”

For a host of reasons, this pattern will continue with the two Methodist branches.

The conservative branch, preaching the Scriptures without apology, adhering to timeless moral values, and offering adherents a true encounter with the risen Lord, will gain members.

The liberal branch, reinterpreting the Scriptures and apologizing for the Bible and redefining morality, will lose members.

As I pointed out in my 2015 article, “Writing in the Federalist in August 2014, Alexander Griswold noted that, “Every major American church that has taken steps towards liberalization on sexual issues has seen a steep decline in membership.” (His article was titled, “How to Shrink Your Church in One Easy Step.”)

I’ve heard it frequently said that a time is coming when the church will be forced to make a decision and take a stand. It seems that we are living through that time, now, across most denominations, including the Catholic Church.  That’s my opinion, but as Pope Francis would say…(I’ll admit I’m Catholic but not a fan of Francis)…“Who am I to judge?”

From what I can see, traditional Methodists have taken a stand with their vote.  Godspeed!