Methodist TV ads

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My husband and I giggled over the last one we saw. I’m all in favor of diversity and accepting each other, but please, the ad was too much!
 
I haven’t seen the ads yet. Does anyone know if they’re running in California?
 
I think I saw one of those the other day. Maybe it was on CNN. I thought it was odd that a church should be advertising on TV but apart from that I don’t remember much about their ad.
 
Their add sounds like you pick what you want to believe and then find a Methodist sect that believes it!

I think that’s what Jesus taught too. Pick what you want the parable to mean and then believe that. Jesus never needed to correct what people believed since the Holy Spirit guided all Christians in what they believed (We had no Bible you know till the Catholic Church wrote it).
 
Methodists don’t have a corner on the market for church ads. A while back, the Boston diocese had commercials on for men to consider the priesthood.

I’m not a fan of the United Methodist television ads, but I do know that the target audience isn’t the churched - it’s the unchurched. So those of us churched and of orthodox faith naturally aren’t going to “get it.”

But Malachi, I think your comments are out of bounds. I don’t think Protestants have a monopoly on being cafeteria Christians. I do like your Magisterium, but it seems awfully easy to get a marriage annulled these days.

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Malachi4U:
Their add sounds like you pick what you want to believe and then find a Methodist sect that believes it!

I think that’s what Jesus taught too. Pick what you want the parable to mean and then believe that. Jesus never needed to correct what people believed since the Holy Spirit guided all Christians in what they believed (We had no Bible you know till the Catholic Church wrote it).
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That’s where Huss, Luther, Zainglig, Calvan, and G. W. Bush went wrong.
 
I was a Methodist for 20 years and I still can’t tell you what they believe.
 
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mommyaprilj:
I was a Methodist for 20 years and I still can’t tell you what they believe.
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Try here at their website. Overall, I would say Methodist congregations are welcoming to all types of people. That is very much in character. I haven’t seen the ads, though.
 
This latest ad is much nicer than the earlier one they ran that implied, more than just a little, that other mainline churches wouldn’t let blacks, gays, the disabled, i. e. anyone a bit “different” through the doors, ala some uptown dance club that won’t let in any but the most beautiful people. Needless to say, they got a lot of flack about it and pulled that ad.

They have the right to tell people that any and all, no matter what they believe, are welcome to become members in the Methodist church, but I don’t think they’ve really stopped to think if that is really such a good thing, after all.
 
O.S. Luke:
But Malachi, I think your comments are out of bounds. I don’t think Protestants have a monopoly on being cafeteria Christians. I do like your Magisterium, but it seems awfully easy to get a marriage annulled these days.

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I don’t believe that protestants have a “monoploy on being cafeteria christians” either…

But…“easy” isn’t the word I’d use for what I am going through…the annulment process. It has been the most gut wrenching, emotionally draining, and time consuming experience I could ever have imagined. It has taken me ten years just to get the darn thing submitted, with three false starts, because of my inability to finish the over 100 in depth questions about my childhood, his childhood, our courtship, our marriage, our separation, our divorce.
Six witnesses that may or may not submit their equally long questionaires, which is up to me to motivate them to try to remember what happened…twenty years ago…when we started dating…not to mention my ex-husband…trying to get him involved…what a nightmare!!

…sad fact is it won’t be until next spring until I find out if the thing will happen or not, and I will owe $400.00 to the tri-bunal that is researching my case (someone has to supply their paychecks), and a possibility that I will be denied is haunting me. I don’t think that anyone would willingly go through this if they didn’t love and believe in the Church.

On the up side…it has also been a healing process. My ex-husband actually apologized…first time ever (he left me and our children for another women he worked with) Amazing! I bet you didn’t expect to hear my horror story about this annulment on a Methodist T.V. add thread…struck a cord is all
 
O.S. Luke:
But Malachi, I think your comments are out of bounds. I don’t think Protestants have a monopoly on being cafeteria Christians. I do like your Magisterium,** but it seems awfully easy to get a marriage annulled these days.**

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True… But the real reason is because so many “Catholic” marriages are not marriages at all…just shams. An annulment only recognizes that no marriage existed.

What I have no information on is : how many Catholics have received annullments more than once. I don’t know of any… so they either learned something from the first (and only), or else they knew better than to seek a second… or they just divorced and perhaps remarried.
 
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Della:
This latest ad is much nicer than the earlier one they ran that implied, more than just a little, that other mainline churches wouldn’t let blacks, gays, the disabled, i. e. anyone a bit “different” through the doors, ala some uptown dance club that won’t let in any but the most beautiful people. Needless to say, they got a lot of flack about it and pulled that ad.
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I think that was the UCC.
 
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Lillith:
I don’t believe that protestants have a “monoploy on being cafeteria christians” either…

But…“easy” isn’t the word I’d use for what I am going through…the annulment process. It has been the most gut wrenching, emotionally draining, and time consuming experience I could ever have imagined. It has taken me ten years just to get the darn thing submitted, with three false starts, because of my inability to finish the over 100 in depth questions about my childhood, his childhood, our courtship, our marriage, our separation, our divorce.
Six witnesses that may or may not submit their equally long questionaires, which is up to me to motivate them to try to remember what happened…twenty years ago…when we started dating…not to mention my ex-husband…trying to get him involved…what a nightmare!!

…sad fact is it won’t be until next spring until I find out if the thing will happen or not, and I will owe $400.00 to the tri-bunal that is researching my case (someone has to supply their paychecks), and a possibility that I will be denied is haunting me. I don’t think that anyone would willingly go through this if they didn’t love and believe in the Church.

On the up side…it has also been a healing process. My ex-husband actually apologized…first time ever (he left me and our children for another women he worked with) Amazing! I bet you didn’t expect to hear my horror story about this annulment on a Methodist T.V. add thread…struck a cord is all
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I don’t know how much money you have but my sister-in-law got her annulment moved up a whole year by throwing in an extra $300. if you have the money you might want to try it.
 
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NonDenom:
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I don’t know how much money you have but my sister-in-law got her annulment moved up a whole year by throwing in an extra $300. if you have the money you might want to try it.
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:confused: It will take twelve to fourteen months to investigate, and so what you are saying is that I can get an annullment before it is filed?
 
Nondenom, just what are you insinuating? That a tribunal “speeds up” an investigation when offered a bribe?

That is extremely insulting, IMO.
 
Tantum ergo:
Nondenom, just what are you insinuating? That a tribunal “speeds up” an investigation when offered a bribe?

That is extremely insulting, IMO.
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I think that is exactly what he is implying… 😦
 
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Della:
I don’t think they’ve really stopped to think if that is really such a good thing, after all.
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Oh, they’ve thought about it, believe me. They’ve thought about it most of my life. Although I’m not privy to the in-depth history of the trend in the UMC, I know that, since I met them in the '60s, they have always regarded themselves as the inclusive, big tent denomination. They embraced hell-fire-&-damnation preachers on the one hand and pro-homosexual preachers on the other; fundamentalist Bible believers on the one hand and on the other hand theologians who thought that Jesus was the son of a German mercenary camping near Nazareth who fornicated with Mary; little old ladies who believed in second-blessing holiness and Communist revolutionaries who fomented riots on the streets of America. Yes, they always had room for everybody and everything.

And their numbers dropped like a rock for thirty years. I haven’t heard any recent statistics.

But still, some of the most devout Christians I’ve ever known were United Methodist.
 
In my opinion John Wesley is one of the greatest Christians ever, but it seems the church he helped create has diversified far too much and strayed off the path.

For the record, I haven’t seen the commercial.
 
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