6,000 Congregations Are Leaving the United Methodist Church in a Split Over LGBTQ Agenda
About a fifth of the congregations in the second largest Protestant church in the U.S. are splitting away over a schism about the inclusion of the LGBTQ agenda in Christianity.
That comes to about 6,000 communities in the United Methodist Church, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
“I don’t think any of us want to see any of our churches leave,” said UMC Council of Bishops president Bishop Thomas Bickerton.
“We’re called to be the body of Christ, we’re called to be unified,” he added. “There’s never been a time when the church has not been without conflict, but there’s been a way we’ve worked through that.”
The mass exodus was the latest development in the years-long debate over LGBTQ inclusion in Methodist theology. Traditional Protestant teaching forbids gay relationships and marriages, but some members and churches are opposing the biblical teaching. (Read more from “6,000 Congregations Are Leaving the United Methodist Church in a Split Over LGBTQ Agenda” HERE)
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