Are you confused about all this?
1. The “New Methodist Movement” is curated by a few clergy in the North Alabama Conference of the UMC that plan to leave our denomination and start a new one.
2. The post-separation UMC will not force or compel pastors or churches to change any policies concerning wedding ceremonies.
3. Forcing all clergy, churches, and parishioners of our Conference to leave our own denomination with a 57% vote would be an injustice. Those who wish to leave will be able to do so without requiring others to leave against their will.
4. A proposed new traditionalist denomination has not yet formed, so the Conference would be voting to become part of something that doesn’t exist. The uncertainties are endless.
5. If we leave our own denomination, we will no longer receive any benefits that come from it.
6. Churches in a proposed new denomination may or may not have a pastor at a given time, because there will no longer be an appointment system.
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