#methodist

[aqours]

the takeaway i'm getting from the catholic church getting their own anime girl mascot is every other branch needs to jump on this asap. as a methodist i propose we get a goth anime girl mascot

[catt-deactivated20240918]

Idk who needs to hear this but you ARE a bad person for being Christian and you need to stop.

[thegreatcallofgod]

CHRISTIANITY IS A WRONG WAY : Jesus said, “I AM THE WAY. No one comes to the Father except through me" - John 14:6

FOLLOW JESUS ALONE & NOT A 'MAN-MADE' RELIGION CHRISTIANITY OR ANY DENOMINATION THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH GOD OR HIS TRUTH IN THE BIBLE (Jeremiah 32:27, Matthew 15:1-14). God bless you & yours.

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[corrupted-llama]

Mark 7:20-23 He went on: “What comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”

[bruce-morrow]

The Gathering, SMU-Taos, NM, 2024

Photo: Bruce Morrow

[citrussunrises]

Ok folks raised or in the church, reblog this with your most insane church lore, drama, or scandal.

I'll go first. My church started out as a New England commune. They all shared one lawnmower.

[msclaritea]

"Luther did not like the Catholic Church,

he protested and the Lutheran Church was created.

Calvin did not like the Lutheran Church and founded the Reformed or Calvinist Church.

Henry VIII did not like being denied a Catholic marriage and founded the Anglican Church.

John Smith did not like the Anglican Church and founded the Baptist Church.

William Miller did not like the Baptist Church and founded the Adventist Church.

Ellen White really liked what William Miller said and founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Charles T Russell did not like the Adventist Church and founded the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Joseph Smith did not like the Methodist Church and founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons).

John Wesley did not like the Anglican Church and founded the Methodist Church.

Some pastors did not like the Methodist Church and founded the Pentecostal Church.

Many people did not like the Pentecostal church and founded thousands of new sects about “how to stop suffering”, Assemblies of God, sects that preach financial prosperity, earthly riches, etc.

Can you imagine how many souls are going to hell because of Luther, directly or indirectly?

REMINDER:

Before the Bible, the Church already existed. The Bible is the fruit of the Church. Truth was not bound, it became Incarnate, truth is not an idea or a thing, or is tied to a book only, truth is a Person, Christ!

The Second Person of the Holy Trinity, Head of the Church which is His Body, the Body that gave us the Bible." Papist Pepe

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Carl Heinrich Bloch (Danish, 1834-1890) Come Unto Me, n.d. “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30). - The Bible.

[unferalghoul]

trinity united methodist

[skepticalpigeon]

If Catholics have Catholic guilt, what do Protestant denominations have? More pressingly, what do Orthodox denominations have?

[kemetic-dreams]

"The original "Uncle Tom",

Rev. Josiah Henson and wife; Dresden ,Canada (c1907)

Josiah Henson (June 15, 1789 – May 5, 1883) was an author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland, he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. Henson's autobiography, The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself (1849), is widely believed to have inspired the character of the fugitive slave, George Harris, in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), who returned to Kentucky for his wife and escaped across the Ohio River, eventually to Canada. Following the success of Stowe's novel, Henson issued an expanded version of his memoir in 1858, Truth Stranger Than Fiction. Father Henson's Story of His Own Life (published Boston: John P. Jewett & Company, 1858). Interest in his life continued, and nearly two decades later, his life story was updated and published as Uncle Tom's Story of His Life: An Autobiography of the Rev. Josiah Henson (1876).

Josiah Henson was born on a farm near Port Tobacco in Charles County, Maryland. When he was a boy, his father was punished for standing up to a slave owner, receiving one hundred lashes and having his right ear nailed to the whipping-post, and then cut off. His father was later sold to someone in Alabama. Following his family's master's death, young Josiah was separated from his mother, brothers, and sisters.His mother pleaded with her new owner Isaac Riley, Riley agreed to buy back Henson so she could at least have her youngest child with her; on condition he would work in the fields. Riley would not regret his decision, for Henson rose in his owners' esteem, and was eventually entrusted as the supervisor of his master's farm, located in Montgomery County, Maryland (in what is now North Bethesda). In 1825, Mr. Riley fell onto economic hardship and was sued by a brother in law. Desperate, he begged Henson (with tears in his eyes) to promise to help him. Duty bound, Henson agreed. Mr. R then told him that he needed to take his 18 slaves to his brother in Kentucky by foot. They arrived in Daviess County Kentucky in the middle of April 1825 at the plantation of Mr. Amos Riley. In September 1828 Henson returned to Maryland in an attempt to buy his freedom from Issac Riley.

He tried to buy his freedom by giving his master $350 which he had saved up, and a note promising a further $100. Originally Henson only needed to pay the extra $100 by note, Mr. Riley however, added an extra zero to the paper and changed the fee to $1000. Cheated of his money, Henson returned to Kentucky and then escaped to Kent County, U.C., in 1830, after learning he might be sold again. There he founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves at Dawn, Upper Canada. Henson crossed into Upper Canada via the Niagara River, with his wife Nancy and their four children. Upper Canada had become a refuge for slaves from the United States after 1793, when Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe passed "An Act to prevent further introduction of Slaves, and to limit the Term of Contracts for Servitude within this Province". The legislation did not immediately end slavery in the colony, but it did prevent the importation of slaves, meaning that any U.S. slave who set foot in what would eventually become Ontario, was free. By the time Henson arrived, others had already made Upper Canada home, including African Loyalists from the American Revolution, and refugees from the War of 1812.

Henson first worked farms near Fort Erie, then Waterloo, moving with friends to Colchester by 1834 to set up a African settlement on rented land. Through contacts and financial assistance there, he was able to purchase 200 acres (0.81 km2) in Dawn Township, in next-door Kent County, to realize his vision of a self-sufficient community. The Dawn Settlement eventually prospered, reaching a population of 500 at its height, and exporting black walnut lumber to the United States and Britain. Henson purchased an additional 200 acres (0.81 km2) next to the Settlement, where his family lived. Henson also became an active Methodist preacher, and spoke as an abolitionist on routes between Tennessee and Ontario. He also served in the Canadian army as a military officer, having led a African militia unit in the Rebellion of 1837. Though many residents of the Dawn Settlement returned to the United States after slavery was abolished there, Henson and his wife continued to live in Dawn for the rest of their lives. Henson died at the age of 93 in Dresden, on May 5, 1883.

[thomasstaples]

Things I like about different Christian Denominations

Catholics: I don't agree with yall on some things, but I am so grateful for everything yall have preserved. I eagerly await Christ's return so all these divisions are finally done away with.

Greek Orthodox: Your services are so beautiful! I'm afraid I'm not as familiar with your beliefs, so I don't have as much to say.

Lutherans: OG reformers, 5 Solas, need I say more?

Anglicans: Yall gave us C.S. Lewis and N.T. Wright. Also, the book of common prayer.

Methodist: The Wesleyan Quadrilateral has helped me so much.

Baptist: Yall have such an important emphasis on a personal relationship with Christ.

Sorry if I missed your denomination

[thegreatcallofgod]

EUCHARIST OR HOLY COMMUNION NOT IN THE BIBLE : Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life" - John 6:35

RELIGION IS BASED ON FEAR & FORCES ITS BELIEVERS TO FOLLOW 'MAN-MADE' RITUALS THAN SPIRITUAL TRUTH.

So, do not be cheated anymore by preachers, who twist God’s word for selfish gains or force you to follow 'man-made' religion, denominations & its ungodly traditions. STAY AWAY FROM RELIGIOUS LEADERS & THEIR PLACES OF WORSHIP (1 Tim 6:5, Col 2:8). God bless you & yours.

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[divinum-pacis]

First United Methodist Church in Charlotte, N.C., hosted hundreds of LGBTQ people and their allies May 1, 2024, for a celebratory sing-along after the United Methodist General Conference lifted a ban on gay ordination. (RNS photos/Yonat Shimron)

[apenitentialprayer]

Very fascinating to me that this Jesuit considers John Wesley to be more like Francis of Assisi, Dominic, or Ignatius of Loyola than he would Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, or John Calvin