This is not actually correct, this title. In fact, it was the UMC that abandoned the church and God along with it. Your candlestick has been removed and you are now dead in your sins.
1 million-member regional body leaves
United Methodist Church over gay marriage, clergy
A regional body of the United Methodist Church with approximately 1 million members has voted to leave the mainline denomination over its acceptance of gay marriage and noncelibate gay clergy.
The Côte d'Ivoire Conference based in West Africa voted earlier this week to leave the UMC after the denomination's decision to remove rules banning the blessing of same-sex unions and the ordination of people in romantic same-sex relationships from its Book of Discipline.
With approximately a million members, the conference was one of the largest regional bodies within the worldwide denomination, according to UM News.
The approved decision argues that "the new United Methodist Church has preferred to sacrifice its honorability and integrity to honor the LGBT" and that "the new United Methodist Church is now based on sociocultural and contextual values which have consumed its doctrinal and disciplinary integrity."
Mark Tooley, president of the theologically conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy, which monitors developments within the UMC, told The Christian Post it's "wonderful that Ivory Coast Methodists are prioritizing orthodoxy over ties to the USA church."
Tooley said the conference was "independent before 2004 and may prefer that status" instead of joining the recently launched conservative denomination, the Global Methodist Church.
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