The United Methodist Church 2024 - Drag Queens

The mainline Protestantism clown show

 

Excerpt: (read the whole thing)  It's both funny and sad.  But here's the bottom line:

The old mainline sustained a shared cultural commitment to a common set of values. Before 1960, interfaith marriages were rare, but inter-political marriages were common. Today, it’s the other way around. The new mainline, terrified of being on the wrong side of the next Civil Rights Movement, panders to activists and ideologues. It’s the new woke establishment at prayer.

This is the problem with the Methodist Church as it struggles with a leadership that's desperate to embrace the trend du jour, Where mere homosexuals are now so old-fashioned that they are attacked by "transgender" and the multiplicity of identities that make it nearly impossible to include them all in the 26 letters of the English alphabet.  We have to ask ourselves what the God who destroyed Sodom and Gomorra would do to churches hosting Drag Queen Sundays that tell the congregation that God is Nothing.  

Ms. Penny Cost discusses being the first drag queen certified candidate for ordination in the United Methodist Church.

It's now a trend ...

United Methodist Church Associate Pastor And Drag Queen Gives Blasphemous Speech On How 'God Is Nothing'

Methodist University Hires a Muslim Chaplain

Going to church this morning.  It's a Methodist church.  One thing I have found in life is that the church people in the pews and many of the clergy are fine people ... committed Christians.  The hierarchy, not so much.  This being a good example.

Christianity teaches that there is only one way for humans to restore their broken relationship with God and enjoy eternal life, and that way is through repentance of sins and faith in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Islam teaches that's not true.

If Christ is the route to eternal life with God, why hire a "spiritual advisor" who teaches the opposite? Would they hire a Devil worshipper, a Buddhist, or an atheist for this role? It's really not safe to say that they wouldn't.

Progressive Believer Ensures Survival Of Christianity By Denying Every Major Christian Doctrine

Babylon Bee (a Christian parody site):

LYNDONBERG, PA—Local progressive Christian and liberal religious blogger Landon Gerry is being heralded as a hero of the faith for ensuring the survival of Christianity by gradually denying every major Christian doctrine, sources confirmed Wednesday.

Religious commentators around the country agreed that Gerry’s heroic defense of the faith, comprised primarily of rejecting everything Christians have believed since the New Testament was completed, is the last hope for Christianity’s survival in the 21st century.

“If Landon hadn’t compromised everything we hold dear, the faith would be in real trouble,” one pastor in California told reporters. “Thanks, Landon. We owe it all to you buddy!”

The blogger, who writes daily on current social issues and their relationship to human faith and doubt, bravely defends the faith daily on Twitter and other social networks by encouraging Christians to immediately jettison any and every doctrine the world finds even slightly distasteful.

“The problem with Christians is they are tossed to and fro by every passage of the Bible, rather than remaining faithful to the ever-shifting moral standards of the culture,” Gerry told reporters Wednesday. “I’m just happy and humbled to do my part to call other Jesus-followers to a more palatable understanding of the Christian faith.”

You may think this is a parody, but if you were a Methodist you would understand the joke.  The Methodists are in the process of removing homosexuality from the list of sins.  As a matter of fact, the "really good" Methodists embrace homosexuality as a new sacrament.

At a recent General Conference of Methodist Bishops from all over the world, a majority of American clergy voted for welcoming open homosexuals into the clergy and performing gay weddings.  The major opposition came from African clergy who voted overwhelmingly to maintain traditional standards, keeping with Biblical theology instead of joining the popular culture in which homosexuality is celebrated.   

As a member of a Methodist congregation, I am amazed at the distance between the leaders of the Methodist church and the people in the pews.