I am disappointed, also. I applaud your faith and bravery. I will also pray for your well being. Organized religions are governments in miniature with Holy scripture as their constitution. And like our secular government that ignores our Constitution, so organized religions ignore their Holy Constitution. Deacons, district superintendents, cardinals, archbishops or whoever in whatever denomination's governing bodies for the most part prefer the progressive modernity to suffering for their faith. Even pastors are more interested in their retirements than their flocks. I was raised Methodist. In my very early teens our independent church decided to join the UMC organization. Because of the UMC's watering down of Christian Doctrine over 4,000 Methodist Churches have left the UMC. That has been only in the last few years. I am sure many legal hurdles had to be overcome. I left the United Methodist Church in 1986 because the national organization supported too many political agendas that I did not. I could not see it getting any better. My religious affiliation is like my voting choice; independent. I do my best to try to pick charities where my money will best be used. Not to pay some religious bureaucrat's salary.
I am disappointed, also. I applaud your faith and bravery. I will also pray for your well being. Organized religions are governments in miniature with Holy scripture as their constitution. And like our secular government that ignores our Constitution, so organized religions ignore their Holy Constitution. Deacons, district superintendents, cardinals, archbishops or whoever in whatever denomination's governing bodies for the most part prefer the progressive modernity to suffering for their faith. Even pastors are more interested in their retirements than their flocks. I was raised Methodist. In my very early teens our independent church decided to join the UMC organization. Because of the UMC's watering down of Christian Doctrine over 4,000 Methodist Churches have left the UMC. That has been only in the last few years. I am sure many legal hurdles had to be overcome. I left the United Methodist Church in 1986 because the national organization supported too many political agendas that I did not. I could not see it getting any better. My religious affiliation is like my voting choice; independent. I do my best to try to pick charities where my money will best be used. Not to pay some religious bureaucrat's salary.
Hang in there and watch your back. God Bless.