I can't say with 100% certainty but I don't think the evangelical numbers are growing outside of a few enclaves. It's mostly the Lutherans and Methodists doing the realigning.
I can't say with 100% certainty but I don't think the evangelical numbers are growing outside of a few enclaves. It's mostly the Lutherans and Methodists doing the realigning.
Well, the United Methodist church just disunited last year over gay marriage and gay ministers. Our local UM church dropped its affiliation and is now trying to raise boo-coo bucks to buy back their church from the national UM organization. The church up the road stayed. Both congregations are realigning now, with the bigots coming to our independent Methodist church or whatever they call themselves now.
I can't say with 100% certainty but I don't think the evangelical numbers are growing outside of a few enclaves. It's mostly the Lutherans and Methodists doing the realigning.
Well, the United Methodist church just disunited last year over gay marriage and gay ministers. Our local UM church dropped its affiliation and is now trying to raise boo-coo bucks to buy back their church from the national UM organization. The church up the road stayed. Both congregations are realigning now, with the bigots coming to our independent Methodist church or whatever they call themselves now.