In a recent summary and commentary by Paul T. Stallsworth, he provides a litany of decisions affirmed at the United Methodist Church General Conference 2000 that demonstrate a clear shift of the UMC (in aggregate) back in the direction of traditional (or orthodox) Christianity.  When you click on the link above and read his piece, I trust you will find his work as informative and encouraging as I did.  However, I ask, "What use is a long list of beliefs and/or rules, if they are simply ignored?"

And, I ask you, the reader, "Which of the following two situations best describes you?"

Are you a person in a UMC conference where the episcopacy respects the established UMC rules?  If so, GC2000 makes you feel that you know just what your UMC denomination is all about.

or,

Are you a person in a UMC conference where the episcopacy is guided by rules that are NOT in accord with the Book of Discipline, the Bible, or many GC2000 decisions?

If you are a person in the first type of UMC conference, please contact your bishop and ask what type of mission trips could be planned to the Cal-Nev Conference or the Northern Illinois Conference in order to bring the Gospel to such vast deserts that thirst for the Truth, yet are continually deprived of God's Word.  If you could reach out to these areas of the UMC and witness to the True message of Christianity, hundreds of thousands of UMC members could have their thirsts eternally quenched.

Won't you please consider trying to save a UMC member today?  Contact your bishop right away and insist that he/she do something to help the lost UMC members who are being deceived by their own conference leaders.

If you are a person in the second type of UMC conference, please contact every person possible to inform them of the desperate situation that exists in your conference.  You will be shocked to discover that the vast majority (perhaps as many as 90%) of the members in your conference are completely unaware that they are a engaged in a conference that is leading its members astray, and risking the eternal lives of countless seemingly good people.

Yes, this message is to all of you who believe God's Word.  You each are the watchman for your fellow UMC members, just like Ezekial who heard God's Word:

7b So listen to what I say, then warn them for me.   ⁸ When I tell wicked people they will die because of their sins, you must warn them to turn from their sinful ways.  But if you refuse to warn them, you are responsible for their death.   ⁹ If you do warn them, and they keep sinning, they will die because of their sins, and you will be innocent.

Ezekiel 33:7b-9, The Contemporary English Version