Shame on the UMC and on these Congregations Trying to Leave It

https://www.christianpost.com/news/court-rules-against-42-churches-trying-to-leave-the-umc.html

Ostensibly these congregations wish to leave the apostate United Methodist Church. But then in the process of making their moral stand they violate Scripture and drag the Church into the secular courts.

If they had real Biblical convictions and the UMC won't let them have their buildings – then just walk away. The judgment is on the UMC. It's just a building after all - it's not the Church.

But instead they place all their stock in their mammon and investments and in their status. And in their pride and bitterness they turn to the secular courts to seek 'justice'.

The judge was right to reject their lawsuit and shamed them in the process. It's outside of his jurisdiction – a point the judge rightly recognized.

What a disgrace that a judge in a secular court has more spiritual discernment than these would-be ex-United Methodists.

No one is stopping them from leaving. The issue is their own lack of discernment.

It's quite a testimony. Let's just say I'm not too optimistic about these congregations. Clearly they are already far removed from Scriptural thinking. This is patently the case when I regularly drive by a Global Methodist Congregation with Rev. Heidi listed on the sign. I'm glad they rejected the sodomitical theology of the United Methodist organisation, but this does not mean the Global Methodists are conservative. Mark Tooley may be excited, but I think it's existence has just added to the already extant confusion and given false comfort to a lot of already misguided and in some cases deceived people.