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Originally Posted by jfschultz  
I was at Second Presbyterian Church, Memphis, when it went through the "Escape Clause" procedure to leave the PCUSA for the EPC. (This was an option in the UPCUSA - PCUS plan of union that had a time limit and only available to former PCUS congregations.) There were months of Wednesday night classes on what was happening and the decline in the PCUSA. But during the six months between the vote to have the vote to leave and and the vote to leave it was all property, property, property.
The session was right to follow the rules set forth in the escape clause, but the reason to leave must be theological! |
My dad's a Methodist minister, and this is one of the reasons (there are many) why the conservatives haven't split the church. They would lose all their property and the UMC would just put a liberal Methodist church in their place.