The Global Methodist Church (GM Church, or GMC) is a Methodist denomination within ProtestantChristianity subscribing to views that were propounded by the conservative Confessing Movement.[6][7][8] The denomination is headquartered in the United States and has a presence internationally.[9][10]
The Global Methodist Church was created as a result of a schism with the United Methodist Church, after members departed to create a denomination seeking to uphold "theological and ethical Christian orthodoxy."[6][11][12] Congregations that left the UMC to form the Global Methodist Church opposed recognition of same-sex marriage and the ordination of non-celibate gay clergy.[12] Its doctrines, which are aligned with Wesleyan-Arminian theology, are contained in the Transitional Book of Doctrines and Discipline, its Book of Discipline, and in The Catechism of the Global Methodist Church.[13][14][15] The church allows both women and men to serve as clergy.[16] As of 2024[update], the church is composed of nearly 4,500 congregations and a similar number of pastors.[4][5]
In the United Methodist Church, polarization started to occur between traditionalist Methodist theologians and clerics and those with progressive tendencies.[17] Traditionalist caucuses within the United Methodist Church, such as the Confessing Movement within the United Methodist Church, Good News, Concerned Methodists, Transforming Congregations, UM Action, Lifewatch, and the Institute on Religion and Democracy for a number of years, promoted what they saw as historic Methodist positions in various General Conferences, Annual Conferences, districts, and local churches.[18][19] The United Methodist Church, spurred by its global growth, was moving "in a more traditionalist and orthodox direction" as a whole.[20] Every General Conference of the United Methodist Church since 1972 continued to uphold a traditionalist stance on human sexuality and in the United Methodist 2016 General Conference, the Church adopted more pro-life stances with respect to abortion.[21][22][23]
In 2016, at the United Methodist Church's General Conference in Portland, Oregon, delegates voted 428 to 405 to delay conversation on homosexuality and proposed a review of ecclesiastical restrictions, with the Book of Discipline's injunctions remaining in effect, that "homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching" and that "marriage is only between a man and a woman."[23] Despite the UMC prohibiting the ordination of "'self-avowed practicing' gay clergy" in its Book of Discipline, one Filipino and more than a hundred progressive American clergy in attendance at the General Conference came out as gay.[24]
Two major plans regarding the UMC's position on homosexuality were suggested at the 2019 General Conference in St. Louis, Missouri: the Traditional Plan, which supported the denomination's current stance against same-sex marriage, and the One Church Plan, which called for the loosening of restrictions. Supporters of the Traditional Plan (who were aligned with the traditionalist caucuses), citing the Book of Discipline, succeeded in passing their proposal with a delegate vote of 438 to 384.[25] Prior to the April vote, discussion of possible schisms over gay issues had grown following a February special session that recommended the Traditional Plan.[26] In late 2020, two progressively-aligned UMC-originating groups announced their establishment: Liberation Methodist Connexion and The Liberation Project.[27][28]
Despite the passing of the Traditional Plan in the 2019 General Conference of the United Methodist Church, several modernist United Methodist clergy announced a refusal to adhere to it and the United Methodist Book of Discipline.[29][30] As a result, the traditionalist caucuses began to plan the formal erection of a new traditionalist Methodist denomination, the Global Methodist Church.[31] The denomination's name was chosen in the spirit of a quote from the father of Methodism, John Wesley, who stated with regard to evangelism, that "The world is my parish."[6]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, plans to discuss and formalize the schism, inclusive of the creation of the Global Methodist Church, were delayed until 2022. In August and September of that year, the UMC General Conference was expected to vote on the proposal referred to as the "Protocol of Reconciliation and Grace Through Separation".[32][33] However, Reverend Keith Boyette, chairman of the Transitional Leadership Council of the Global Methodist Church, published a letter in January 2022 that expressed concern this General Conference would also be delayed.[34] In February 2022, the UMC announced that it was examining again postponing the General Conference.[35] Not wanting to wait for the General Conference to occur, some conservative United Methodist congregations left the United Methodist Church to become a part of the Free Methodist Church.[36][37]
The denomination launched on May 1, 2022. On 6-7 May 2022, leaders and delegates of the Wesleyan Covenant Association met in Avon, Indiana.[38] They selected Jay Therrell of Florida as their leader, replacing Keith Boyette of Virginia, who will remain in as a member of the GMC's leadership. Also, they approved core beliefs and policies for the denomination.[39] In September, a group of UMC bishops in Africa suspended cooperation with the Africa Initiative and Wesleyan Covenant Association after accusing the groups of working "to destroy our United Methodist Church" and attempting to raise the Global Methodist Church's profile.[40]
In July 2023, the Global Methodist Church reported 3,000 churches had joined the denomination.[41]
Much like both the UMC and Free Methodist Church (FMC), the GMC will have an episcopacy that will oversee annual conferences.[43] Unlike the UMC, bishops within the GMC will be consecrated to serve for a set term, as opposed to a lifetime role.[44] The role within the UMC of district superintendent will be replaced with that of a presiding elder.[45]
In May 2022, the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church ruled that none of the 51 annual conferences in the United States can leave the church for the GMC and that only individual churches can do so. However, the ruling does not apply to conferences outside the United States. The Romania-Bulgaria Conference had already voted to leave the UMC,[38] and in June the Evangelical Methodist Church in Croatia joined as a member church of the GMC.[3]
Provisional annual conferences on the Global Methodist Church web site as of October 2023 are:[46]
^ abcHodges, Sam (March 22, 2021). "Planned traditionalist Methodist denomination gets name". The Christian Century. Retrieved December 14, 2022. Traditionalists committed to leaving the United Methodist Church have chosen "Global Methodist Church" as the name for the denomination they plan to launch. ... The name "Global Methodist Church" is in the spirit of Methodism founder John Wesley's statement, "The world is my parish," a press release said.
^Hodges, Sam (May 9, 2022). "Traditionalist group not going away". United Methodist News Service. Retrieved December 14, 2022. The WCA took the lead in the creation of a new traditionalist Methodist denomination, the Global Methodist Church, which formally began May 1.
^Hodges, Sam (April 11, 2022). "Bulgaria-Romania United Methodists vote to leave". United Methodist News Service. Retrieved December 14, 2022. The Bulgaria-Romania Provisional Conference voted to leave The United Methodist Church for the Global Methodist Church, a traditionalist denomination that begins operations May 1.
^Tooley, Mark (August 17, 2022). "Traditional Methodists Search for New Path Forward". The Gospel Coalition. Retrieved December 14, 2022. The 13-million-member United Methodist Church is shattering, and traditionalists are building a new Global Methodist Church committed to theological and ethical Christian orthodoxy.
^ abMatthews, Cabe (August 2, 2022). "The Center Cannot Hold". Firebrand Magazine. Retrieved December 14, 2022. Of course the headline issue is that of human sexuality: should the church maintain the classical understanding of Christianity (and before it, its Judaic mother) on same-gender sexual relationships, or is this traditional view now properly understood as retrograde, oppressive, and offensive? Meanwhile, many traditionalists insist that matters of human sexuality are not their primary concern. Instead, they often suggest that orthodox Christian doctrine is what is at stake. The post-separation UMC, some claim, will not only be progressive in its sexual ethic, it will quickly abandon classical Christian teachings like the virgin birth, the atoning death of Christ, the Trinity, or the bodily resurrection of Christ.
^Shepherd, Josh (December 7, 2022). "Over 400 TX Congregations Exit United Methodist Church Over LGBTQ Issues". The Roys Report. Retrieved December 14, 2022. Similarly, White's Chapel in Southlake, which has over 6,000 weekly attendance, exited the denomination last month and stated it seeks to uphold "Wesleyan Theology" and "Methodist traditions, rites, and rituals" as it moves forward.
^Short, Faye (May 10, 2022). "A Response to the Rebranding of United Methodist Women to United Women in Faith". Renew Network. They are the issues that caused the formation of renewal movements (Good News, UM Action, The Confessing Movement, Concerned Methodists, The Wesleyan Covenant Association), within the UMC, including, in behalf of women, the Esther Action Council, The Good News Women's Taskforce and the ECUMW/RENEW Network. They are the underlying concerns, among others, that brought about the formation of the WCA, and the subsequent Global Methodist Church.
^Goodstein, Laurie (May 3, 2012). "Methodists Keep Stricture on Homosexuality". The New York Times. Retrieved December 14, 2022. The United Methodist Church at its convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday voted against changing long-contested language in its book of laws and doctrines that calls homosexuality "incompatible with Christian teaching." The vote was 61 percent to 39 percent against the change to the church's Book of Discipline. The delegates also defeated by a similar margin a compromise proposed by gay rights advocates, which said that Methodists could acknowledge their differences on homosexuality while still living together as a church. In other historically mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, liberals have prevailed so far in the battles over homosexuality. The Episcopal Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have all voted in recent years to end their outright prohibitions on openly gay clergy members. But in the United Methodist Church, theological conservatives have held sway in the 40 years that the church has been debating the issue. An influx of non-American members has even bolstered the conservatives. The United Methodist Church is the largest mainline Protestant denomination in the United States, but its American membership has declined to about 7.8 million in recent years. Meanwhile, its membership abroad has grown to about 4.4 million, mostly in Africa and the Philippines, where homosexuality is not accepted.
^ abStrode, Tom (May 24, 2016). "Baptists praise UMC reversal on abortion". Baptist Press. Retrieved December 14, 2022. Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, told Baptist Press, "Christians of all denominations should praise God for the United Methodist Church's historic repudiation of abortion. This is good news for orthodoxy, for the unity of the Body of Christ, and for the vulnerable unborn and their mothers. ... The Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) — which seeks the renewal of mainline Protestant denominations — commended the UMC pro-life actions. John Lomperis, IRD's United Methodist director, called them "HUGE steps in the right direction." Regarding homosexuality, the delegates in Portland voted 428 to 405 in support of a recommendation from the UMC's Council of Bishops to defer votes on "human sexuality" at the conference. Instead, the recommendation, passed May 18, empowered the Council of Bishops to appoint a special commission to study the UMC's Book of Discipline for possible revision on sexual issues. The council said it may call for a meeting to address the matter prior to the 2020 General Conference. The Book of Discipline — which will remain in effect in the meantime — says homosexuality is "incompatible with Christian teaching" and maintains marriage is only between a man and a woman.
^Garrison, Greg (March 14, 2022). "With Methodist split delayed again, churches mull whether to go now or stay". Advance Publications. Retrieved December 14, 2022. Even though the denomination has repeatedly voted to keep its traditional stance on marriage as only between a man and a woman, conservatives complain that progressives in the denomination have repeatedly ignored the rules. "We've come to an impasse," said the Rev. Vaughn Stafford, pastor of Clearbranch Church.
^Lambrecht, Thomas (October 7, 2022). "Reasons for Affiliating with the Global Methodist Church". Retrieved December 14, 2022. The Global Methodist Church was formed by people who want to see the GM Church committed to making disciples for Jesus Christ. They have served in leadership in the same Renewal and Reform groups that have worked for decades to promote doctrinal integrity and biblical positions in The United Methodist Church. These include The Confessing Movement, Good News, and the Wesleyan Covenant Association. They are dedicated to the advancement of a Scripturally-based, historic Wesleyan understanding of the Christian faith.
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