Thursday, December 21, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 17:33)
The Dramatic Disaffiliation: The Biggest Schism in American Protestantism Is Taking Place in the United Methodist Church Right Now
Part II (17:33 - 19:13)
LGBTQ Issues, Control, and Theological Arguments: Why Conservatives are Leaving the UMC
- One fourth of United Methodist churches in US have left in schism over LGBTQ ban. What happens now? by Associated Press (Peter Smith)
Part III (19:13 - 24:13)
Who are the Houthi Rebels? Just Look at Their Motto: The Theology and Ideology Behind the Terrorist Attacks in the Red Sea
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, December 21st, 2023. I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. There are plenty of |
| 0:14.0 | crises for us to observe around the world we're going to have to turn to a couple of |
| 0:17.8 | those today but first I want to turn to a crisis in the Christian church and this is a crisis in the Christian Church. |
| 0:23.2 | And this is a crisis that is illustrated most glaringly as we come to the end of the calendar year |
| 0:28.5 | 2023 and perhaps most tellingly in what has been known as the United Methodist Church. |
| 0:34.8 | Because the big story is that by the end of this year, somewhere over 7,000 congregations will |
| 0:40.8 | have officially left the United Methodist Church over many |
| 0:45.0 | the theological issues that are currently at stake in the great battle between |
| 0:49.1 | more liberal and more conservative forces in so many denominations. But behind this is not only a set of numbers, |
| 0:56.8 | it's the very real life of so many of these congregations. And there's the story of |
| 1:01.4 | Methodism, particularly in the United States, and why the coming |
| 1:05.7 | apart of the United Methodist Church is such a big story. |
| 1:09.8 | So first of all, again, the numbers, about 7,600 churches will have left the United Methodist |
| 1:15.1 | Church by the end of this calendar year and the end of this calendar year brings to an |
| 1:19.6 | end a particular agreed-upon period in which these congregations had the right to leave, |
| 1:26.0 | and at least in some cases with their property or with some kind of settlement over their property. |
| 1:32.0 | In order to understand this we have to go back |
| 1:34.8 | to why there is a denomination known as the Methodist and that takes us back to |
| 1:40.2 | England and in particular to the 18th century where you had a man by the name of John Wesley whose brother |
| 1:46.0 | of course was the great hymn writer Charles Wesley who with others created a |
| 1:50.2 | society for devotion within the Church of England. They at no point during the lifetimes, say, |
| 1:57.5 | of John and Charles Wesley, intended to leave the Church of England. The Methodist, as they became known, basically saw themselves as a renewal |
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