How the United Methodist Church is Fracturing Over Theology and Corruption

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The United Methodist Church is Fracturing Over Theology and Corruption. Jeffrey Rickman, a former United Methodist Church pastor, explains how this is happening. Pastor Rickman is part of the Global Methodist Church now, but a month ago he was still ministering in the UMC. Since 2019, when conservatives won a key victory, the denomination has been drifting toward the Left in North America. The traditionalist stance on sexual ethic has been ignored by key figures with power in the denomination. Some churches who want to leave are hassled regarding the specifics. Assets and Real Estate play a large part in the incentives to stay in or leave. Rickman explains two potential scenarios for the next few years.

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0:00.0	Welcome everyone once again to the conversations that matter
0:15.7	podcast as always we have a special show for you today that hopefully will be
0:20.8	encouraging and informative.
0:23.0	And I trust it will, it definitely will.
0:26.7	It's something that I mentioned that we're going to talk about,
0:29.8	but I haven't delved in deep.
0:31.2	And so to help me with this subject and the subject of course is the
0:35.2	United Methodist Church we have pastor Jeffrey Rickman with us he's a former UMC
0:42.4	pastor up until about three weeks ago in Oklahoma and he
0:46.2	is a podcast called Plain Spoken if you want to check out more of Pastor Rickman's ministry. So Jeffrey, thank you for joining me.
0:52.3	Real happy to join you, John.
0:54.0	So let's start at the beginning, if that's okay.
0:58.0	And I don't know where the beginning exactly is. I thought maybe 2019 when there was a vote to affirm a traditional stance on marriage and or I don't
1:07.4	if it was marriage or just gay clergy to make sure that that wasn't approved of.
1:13.0	But I thought that was a good move,
1:15.1	and I think a lot of listeners out there
1:16.6	who weren't in the UMC heard about that
1:18.3	and thought that was a good move.
1:20.4	And now there's churches leaving all over the place.
1:22.5	And I know you are, like I said in the intro,
1:26.8	you were just recently in the UMC, now you're not.
1:29.3	So what's going on right now?
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