Methodists declare 'we're ready to merge' with Church of England
The Methodist Church is prepared to be absorbed by the Church of England if that is the price of unity, Britain’s most senior Methodist said yesterday.
The Rev David Gamble, president of the Methodist Conference, told the General Synod of the Church of England, meeting at Church House, Westminster: “We are prepared to go out of existence, not because we are declining or failing in mission, but for the sake of mission.” Methodists were “prepared to be changed and even to cease having a separate existence as a Church” if that served the needs of the Kingdom of God....
John UK wrote: Birds of a feather flock together, says the old proverb, and certainly true in this case, as Methodists repent of their nonconformist position and return like a prodigal son to Big Daddy State Church. Of course, Daddy wants to bow down to the antichrist so it will be a big mistake. No-one will get me to change from a nonconformist position!
Methinks we all conform to a position of preference, bro.
In the USA, the United Methodist Church has been dead for years, United Methodists at the End of the Mainline, so I would think the British branch is in just as bad shape. They and Anglicanism have nearly the same theology, Methodism . from the above article,
Wikipedia wrote: Methodists, stemming from John Wesley's own practices of theological reflection, make use of tradition, drawing primarily from the teachings of the Church fathers, as a source of authority. Though not infallible like holy Scripture, tradition may serve as a lens through which Scripture is interpreted... Theological discourse for Methodists almost always makes use of Scripture read inside the great theological tradition of Christendom.
Birds of a feather flock together, says the old proverb, and certainly true in this case, as Methodists repent of their nonconformist position and return like a prodigal son to Big Daddy State Church. Of course, Daddy wants to bow down to the antichrist so it will be a big mistake.
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so it will be a big mistake.
what hath god wrought: "jesus used a whip of some sort. nettles or not, he sure..."
