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United Methodist Church upholds ban on same-sex marriage

The global United Methodist Church held what was touted as a historic special session of General Conference February 23-26. The conference had been called to deal with the church’s position on issues of homosexuality and same-sex marriage. The topics are nothing new. The church has been fighting an inward battle for decades as more and more clergy have chosen to openly defy the teachings of the church, to the point of appointing an openly gay bishop, ordaining homosexual ministers, and performing same-sex weddings – all without discipline from the greater church (or, more accurately, largely ignoring any discipline). Local Methodist pastors are as split on same-sex marriage and gay clergy as leaders of the United Methodist Church. At a recent special session of its General Conference, leaders of the United Methodist Church rejected the One Church Plan, a measure that…

HOLINESS HAS ALWAYS BEEN GOD’S STANDARD! The bride He is coming back for MUST BE A HOLY BRIDE. Make yourselves ready for His return by sanctifying your lives by His Word.Live how it says to live! Ephesians 5:27That He might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. False doctrine undermines godliness by promoting what is novel or speculative in place of what is true. ST. LOUIS — Deeply divided United Methodist delegates advanced a conservative plan out of committee Monday to maintain the church’s bans on same-sex marriage and gay clergy while dealing a potential setback to those pushing for full LGBT inclusion. The rule book for the second-largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. prohibits same-sex… The history of Christ’s church is inseparable from…

When actor Chris Pratt went on The Late Showa couple weeks ago, he casually name-dropped “the Daniel Fast,” a 21-day diet based on the Bible, which he said he learned about through his pastor at Zoe Church. This comment about his church and the rest of the conversation about his faith got Ellen Page’s attention.”Oh. K. Um. But his church is infamously anti LGBTQ so maybe address that too?” Page wrote on Twitter, referring to Hillsong, another celebrity-friendly megachurch, which Pratt used to attend. Two days later, she tweeted: “If you are a famous actor and you belong to an organization that hates a certain group of people, don’t be surprised if someone simply wonders why it’s not addressed. Being anti-LGBTQ is wrong, there aren’t two sides. The damage it causes is severe.” Chris Pratt pushed back against fellow actor Ellen Page’s assertion his church is anti-LGBT. “It…

The False “Church System” Deception American megachurches use stagecraft, sensory pageantry, charismatic leadership and an upbeat, unchallenging vision of Christianity to provide their congregants with a powerful emotional religious experience, according to research from the University of Washington. The real question is one of obedience. Does this church look like the church of the New Testament? Are we carrying out what Christ has given us to do? That is non-negotiable, but size is never made a part of the command… “We’re not told to get to a certain size and split, nor are we told that a small church is ineffective. We’re told to be faithful, specifically to the Great Commission.” “I don’t think that you can say that a church is more biblical because it’s small, or more biblical because it’s large. I don’t think either model is unbiblical……

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Don’t Be Confused: Zoe Church, Which Is Modeled After the New-Style Evangelical Church, Hillsong

“Megachurches are sprawling wastelands of Christianity”