#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.

The Great Call of God (TGCG)

[A non-religious & non-denominational SPIRITUAL ministry]

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[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.

[apenitentialprayer]

The devil tempts other men; but an idle man tempts the devil. An idle man's brain is the devil's shop, where he is continually working mischief.

John Wesley (Letter to a Roman Catholic, §15b)

Engage in some occupation, that the devil may always find you busy.

Saint Jerome (Epistle 125, §11)

[famousobjectmaker]

Heaven is the goal 📌

[therealcodfather]

I need to rant. As a Christian, a LOT of other Christians make me SO mad. I hate how brainwashy they can be. I'm not a Christian out of fear ok. If I didn't wanna be I wouldn't. I'm already gay, religious guilt doesn't work on me, I'm unapologetically gay and if that's a sin boo fucking hoo. But my mom is a "Christian" and she's only one because she saw some bullshit on YouTube that said Jesus visited some girl and said if her best friend didn't become Christian he would die and she BELIEVES it.

I'm so convinced so many Christians are only Christians Because they're scared. Especially because so many of them embody hate (which is?? What the opposite of Christianity is meant to be about????) If they weren't scared/forced into it I'm sure like 90% of them wouldn't be. I'm looking DIRECTLY at you Catholics.

Of course I won't ever be rude to Catholics if they don't brainwash, I've got a lovely friend who's Catholic! It's just.. the majority.. they don't even attent a Catholic church because they say it's super toxic.

The thing that sparked this rant is a conversation I've just had with my Mom. And It makes me so genuinely pissed off when Christians contradict themself to try and brainwash you.

Me: I hope Elon musk dies.

Mom: You shouldn't say that! It's God's judgement.

Me: Well he cut $200 million in children's cancer Research. He's killing so many innocent children. If God doesn't kill him soon I'm no longer a Christian Because he must be an asshole.

Mom: Well God can't decide when people die!!!!

???? Then what the FUCK was that argument???? She got threatened by the fact I'm not as faithful as her and contradicted herself. I told her to let me believe in what I believe in and she shut up.

[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

[bruce-morrow]

The Gathering, SMU-Taos, NM, 2024

Photo: Bruce Morrow

[theprongspotter]

Bro I went to church and this old lady came up to me during the passing of peace and goes “you’re the cutest little thing, but you can’t sit still, can you?” HELLO?? YOU DID NOT HAVE TO SAY THAT 😭😭

[skepticalpigeon]

Favorite Christian denomination?

Maybe Methodism? I think taking positive action to help others is very very important, for both religious and non-religious people.

Also, as a bonus, two general schools of thought (not denominations) that I really like are Calvinism and Pentecostalism. Calvinism because it's just kinda weird like that, good for religious despair hours etc. Pentecostalism because I think it could make me stay awake for an entire sermon.

[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.

The Great Call of God (TGCG)

[A non-religious & non-denominational SPIRITUAL ministry]

https://www.facebook.com/TheGreatCallofGod

[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)

[unferalghoul]

trinity united methodist

[apenitentialprayer]

The Christianization of African-Americans

Postcolonial American culture's preoccupation with breaking away from Europe was far removed from the situation among Africans in the United States at the time. The initial tenacity with which African Americans held onto their indigenous practices and the reluctance of many Southern white slaveholders to teach Christianity to the slaves limited the Christianizing process in the early period. Even the Great Awakening of the 1740s, which swept the country like a hurricane, failed to reach the masses of slaves. Only with the Great Western Revival at the turn of the nineteenth century did the Christianizing process gain a significant foothold among black people. The central questions at this junction are: Why did large numbers of American black people become Christians? What features of Protestant Christianity persuaded them to become Christian? The Baptist separatists and the Methodists, religious dissenters in American religious culture, gained the attention of the majority of slaves in the Christianizing process. The evangelical outlook of these denominations stressed individual experience, equality before God, and institutional autonomy. Baptism by immersion, practiced by Baptists, may indeed have reminded slaves from Nigeria and Dahomey of African river cults, but fails to fully explain the success of the Christianizing process among Africans. Black people became Christians for intellectual, existential, and political reasons. Christianity is, as Friedrich Nietzsche has taught us and liberation theologians remind us, a religion especially fitted to the oppressed. It looks at the world from the perspective of those below. The African slaves' search for identity could find historical purpose in the exodus of Israel out of slavery and personal meaning in the bold identification of Jesus Christ with the lowly and downtrodden. Christianity also is first and foremost a theodicy, a triumphant account of good over evil. The intellectual life of the African slaves in the United States —like that of all oppressed peoples— consisted primarily of reckoning with the dominant form of evil in their lives. The Christian emphasis on against-the-evidence hope for triumph over evil struck deep among many of them. The existential appeal of Christianity to black people was the stress of Protestant evangelicalism on individual experience, and especially the conversion experience. The "holy dance" of Protestant evangelical conversion experience closely resembled the "ring shout" of West African novitiate rites: both are religious forms of ecstatic bodily behavior in which everyday time is infused with meaning and value through unrestrained rejoicing. The conversion experience played a central role in the Christianizing process. It not only created deep bonds of fellowship and a reference point for self-assurance during times of doubt and distress; it also democratized and equalized the status of all before God. The conversion experience initiated a profoundly personal relationship with God, which gave slaves a special self-identity and self-esteem in stark contrast with the roles imposed upon them by American society. The primary political appeal of the Methodists and especially of the Baptists for black people was their church polity and organizational form, free from hierarchical control, open and easy access to leadership roles, and relatively loose, uncomplicated requirements for membership. The adoption of the Baptist polity by a majority of Christian slave marked a turning point in the Afro-American experience [...] Independent control over their churches promoted the proliferation of African styles and manners within the black Christian tradition and liturgy. It also produced community-minded political leaders, polished orators, and activist journalists and scholars. In fact, the unique variant of American life that we call Afro-American culture germinated in the bosom of this Afro-Christianity, in the Afro-Christian church congregations.

- Cornel West ("Race and Modernity," from his Reader, pages 61-63, 63)