VICIOUS APOSTASY OF BRITISH METHODISTS

APOSTASY OF BRITISH METHODISTS

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May 28, 1999 (David Cloud, Fundamental Baptist Information Service, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061-0368, fbns@wayoflife.org) - The wicked apostasy of most mainline Protestant denominations is amazing to behold. Consider the British Methodist Church, for example.

The Bible is filled with myths. The British Methodist Church is filled with preachers who believe the Bible is a fallible, myth-filled, man-made book. In 1975, for example, noted British Methodist leader Leslie Weatherhead mocked Christians who believe in salvation through the blood of Christ and in a literal Heaven and Hell and a literal return of Christ. He called such Christians "cranks" (Weatherhead, The Hammer of the Resurrection, p. 13).

God is a Mother. The new 600-page Methodist Worship Book, which was used for the first time on Easter Sunday, contains a prayer to "God our Father and our Mother."

Women are preachers. The Methodist Church of Britain has been ordaining women pastors and church leaders many decades.

Divorce is accepted and rampant. Some 63% of Methodist Church weddings involve at least one divorced person. The new Worship Book removes the ceremony of the father giving away the bride and no longer says that marriage is a lifelong union. Describing the reason for the change, Neil Dixon, secretary of committee that produced the new Worship Book, said they wanted "to provide material which people feel comfortable with."

Modern British Methodists are not reminded that they are sinners. The New Worship Book removes "the prayer for humble access" which preceded the Lord’s Supper in their old worship book. The liturgical committee removed the prayer because it was "grovelly" and "placed too much emphasis on sin" (American Spectator, Feb. 18, 1999). One of the committee members stated, "An overriding element of the Eucharist is to be lifted up by the healing of God. We do not want people to be brought down at this holy moment and reminded they are a sinner."

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:3,4).