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United Methodist Rift with the Gideons

By Filings on Wed, 07/31/24
Church & Ministry
Gideons
United Methodists
UMC Split
Sexual Ethics

“To be a member of the Gideons, one must be an adult man and conform to a set of spiritual beliefs that are entirely uncontroversial for most Biblical Christians. Among these requisites is the commitment to ‘the Biblical standard of marriage being between one biological man and one biological woman.’” - Juicy Ecumenism

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Bert Perry

NewBigger than just the Gideons

Wed, 07/31/24

If they push the Gideons out on the basis of the definition of marriage, what they're doing is yet another instance of their war with their evangelical wing, which in my view is even now at least a third of their churches. My bet is that this will push a fair number of those out and accelerate their decline.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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