Full Communion approved with six Pan-Methodist denominations
by Art McClanahan May 1, 2012
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On the day’s consent calendar the General Conference of The United Methodist Church approved full Communion with Pan-Methodist denominations. The celebration also remembered past history.
To deal with schism-threatening conflict over homosexuality, Bishops Bard and Jones favor making The United Methodist Church an umbrella for self-governing church groups.
Seminary professor Laceye C. Warner writes that Wesley’s instructions to modern Methodists would be the same as Methodists of his day: Extend God’s love and grace to others.
Wesley knew that the people called Methodists were themselves liable to spiritual slumber. Seminary professor David F. Watson thinks Wesley would direct today’s church back to the intentional practices of the Methodist societies.
