{"id":25027,"date":"2024-06-08T05:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-08T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=25027"},"modified":"2024-06-08T05:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-08T12:00:09","slug":"united-methodist-church-loses-more-than-1-million-members-in-single-day-when-group-takes-stand-for-god-and-his-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/united-methodist-church-loses-more-than-1-million-members-in-single-day-when-group-takes-stand-for-god-and-his-word\/","title":{"rendered":"United Methodist Church loses more than 1 million members in single day when group takes stand for &#8216;God and His word&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"widget__subheadline\">\n<p>Last month, the UMC officially adopted pro-LGBT values.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body  css-listicle-body-2668445220\" data-headline=\"United Methodist Church loses more than 1 million members in single day when group takes stand for 'God and His word'\">\n<div class=\"body-description\">\n<p>In one fell swoop last week, the United Methodist Church lost more than 1 million members.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks after the United Methodist Church\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/umc-votes-allow-lgbtq-clergy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted to allow LGBT-practicing clergy<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umnews.org\/en\/news\/church-ends-52-year-old-anti-gay-stance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reverse prohibitions on same-sex marriage<\/a>, the United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast (Eglise M\u00e9thodiste Unie C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire)\u00a0<a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/international.la-croix.com\/religion\/ivorian-methodists-break-from-united-methodist-church-over-lgbtq-decisions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted<\/a>\u00a0on May 28 to leave the UMC.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/umc-ivory-coast-leaves-lgbt-issues\">theblaze.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, the UMC officially adopted pro-LGBT values. In one fell swoop last week, the United Methodist Church lost more than 1 million members. Weeks after the United Methodist Church\u00a0voted to allow LGBT-practicing clergy\u00a0and\u00a0reverse prohibitions on same-sex marriage, the United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast (Eglise M\u00e9thodiste Unie C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire)\u00a0voted\u00a0on May 28 to leave the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/united-methodist-church-loses-more-than-1-million-members-in-single-day-when-group-takes-stand-for-god-and-his-word\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">United Methodist Church loses more than 1 million members in single day when group takes stand for &#8216;God and His word&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21348,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/white_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6vF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25028,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25027\/revisions\/25028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}