There are many reasons for the modern church's loss of its prophetic voice, politics being just one of them.
Powerless church tells us what we want to hear rather than what we need to hear“O never give me over to my own heart’s desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!” — John Wesley
The latest but surely not the last example is what the United Methodist Church did last week at their convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. Delegates voted 523 to 161 to replace the definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman and will now allow gay Methodist ministers to be ordained and perform same-sex marriages. They dropped language that said homosexual practice “is incompatible with Christian teaching.” African delegates voted against the change.
In Genesis 2:24, it says: “A man shall leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife and the two will become one flesh.” The idea is to express love through mutual pleasure and produce children.In Judges 21:25, it says: “In those days Israel had no king. Everyone did as he saw fit.” We see that reflected in today’s attitudes about sex, marriage and many other things.
As The New York Times reported about Methodism three years ago, “America’s second-largest Protestant denomination is in the final stages of a slow motion rupture that has so far seen the departure of a quarter of the nation’s roughly 30,000 United Methodist churches, according to the denomination’s news agency.”
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