Albert Mohler: The United Methodists: Not So United Anymore
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This is Albert Mohler for Townhall.com.
We've just witnessed a huge story unfold in the United States. The biggest religion story, perhaps in recent days as the United Methodist Church has basically become…well…far less united. One historian calls this divide “the biggest schism in any American denomination in the history of our country.”
For the most part, it took place between 2019 and 2023. It's the last four-year period. The end of the calendar year just passed, marked the end of the opportunity for Methodist congregations to leave the denomination with their property, and there were all kinds of arrangements that were made for that and cost paid, I should say, by many congregations.
Over the course of that time, given what was at one point America's largest Protestant denomination. What we know now is that a quarter of the congregations left fully, 25 percent largely over L-G-B-T-Q issues.
In the Methodist Conference known as Northwest Texas, 81 percent of the congregations left the United Methodist Church.
I think we need to recognize that’s seismic.
The bottom line is a church can't go, a denomination can't go in two directions at once on key issues. Most importantly, the truth of Scripture, the integrity of the Gospel and the continuation of the faith once for all delivered to the saints.
The church and a denomination is either going to stand or it's going to fall, but at least it's true right now, the United Methodist Church is no longer united with a quarter of its congregations leaving over principle.
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