A Mississippi church has dissociated from the United Methodist Church (UMC) with overwhelming support from the congregation over the denomination’s increasingly lax stance on homosexuality.
Christ United Methodist Church of Jackson, labeled by the Western Journal as “one of the largest United Methodist Church bodies in Mississippi,” voted on Sunday to disaffiliate from the UMC’s Mississippi Conference.
The vote was a landslide victory in favor of those who wanted to dissociate from modern Methodism, with 717 members, or 86.39 percent, voting to leave and 112 members (13.49 percent) opposing.
Although the UMC Book of Discipline does not allow the blessing of same-sex marriages or the ordination of people in same-sex unions, many Methodist churches do not enforce these stances, according to the Christian Post.The decision made by the formerly UMC church, which will change its name to “Christ United – Jackson” on January 1, 2024, […]
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