A New Doctrinal Standard?
The work of a rebellious child
The Global Methodist Church was born as the unwanted and rebellious child of the UMC. Those of us who left the UMC were unwilling to participate in the inexorable march of progressivism. Yet from the outset, we have carried a family resemblance to our parent denomination. We still do so in ways we do not always see. The retention of both the Articles and Confession is one example. When the 2024 General Conference instructed the Commission on Discipleship, Doctrine, and Just Ministry to create a new doctrinal standard based on the Articles and Confession, the impulse to do so came from a desire to form a more theologically precise, concise, and coherent statement of Wesleyan belief than our predecessor denomination had produced. We were asked to do what Outler and his Theological Study Commission were unwilling or unable to do.
My prayers are with you. I am in ACNA. And at the beginning we tried too hard to be a big tent and that is causing us problems.
I drive by a Globalist Methodist Church which used to be a UMC. I will uphold you all in prayer.