Comments on: UMC Prejudice or Inertia http://henrysthreads.com/2008/12/umc-prejudice-or-inertia/ Thoughts on Religion in the World from a passionate, moderate, liberal charismatic Christian Tue, 15 May 2012 14:29:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John http://henrysthreads.com/2008/12/umc-prejudice-or-inertia/comment-page-1/#comment-128435 John Sun, 28 Dec 2008 05:32:06 +0000 http://www.energionpubs.com/wordpress/?p=1763#comment-128435 Now it seems that John the Methodist’s situation is somewhat different. He not only made it through candidacy, but he began to act as pastor, and he is apparently quickly discarded. The sound of it disturbs me. The process had to go through many stages up to that point, and many people have seen a call on this individual’s life, and thought he would make a good United Methodist minister, yet here he is out the door.

Because of the arduous, expensive, and lengthy process that involves ordination in the UMC, those whom the UMC does not ordain, it destroys utterly.

I think back to how I could have avoided this disaster, and I can only think of two ways: (1) never to seek a student appointment at all or (2) to deliberately fail my power-hungry lay leader’s theological test, assert that I did not believe in modern day prophecy, and thereby encourage her to satisfy her hungers elsewhere.

Otherwise, this disaster was unavoidable. And these two possibilities were not really foreseeable. And the second option would have meant be dishonest to my own theological convictions.

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