“We don’t see as exclusive we see it in an inclusive way.”įormed in a merger in 1968, the United Methodist Church reports about 12.6 million members worldwide, including nearly 7 million in the U.S. “Jesus was touching the lepers, and reaching out to those on the margins of society,” he said.
Shaw said his congregation believes Christ’s message is more inclusive. “It’s not who we are in the Methodist Church in the United States," Shaw said, “and it’s certainly not who we are in the Methodist Church in Utah. Louis were from foreign countries, mostly Africa, and those representatives overwhelmingly supported the LGBTQ bans. “Essentially where we were before General Conference,” said Shaw, who pointed out that the UMC is a global denomination. Had an alternative proposal - called the One Church Plan - been approved, it would have left decisions about same-sex marriage and the ordination of LGBTQ clergy up to regional bodies and would have removed language from the church’s law book asserting that “the practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching." Louis voted in favor of the so-called Traditional Plan, which called for keeping the LGBTQ bans and enforcing them more strictly. More than half of the 800 delegates at the church’s special session in St.
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