A large congregation in South Carolina has requested to leave the United Methodist Church over the mainline Protestant denomination’s debate over homosexuality.
In February 2019, the UMC will hold a special session of its General Conference to determine if the denomination will maintain its official position against homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
Christ United Methodist Church of Myrtle Beach, which is said to have approximately 1,600 members, has sent a request to the South Carolina Annual Conference to leave the denomination.
While their departure from the UMC has not been finalized, the congregation has already changed the church’s name to simply “Christ United,” as seen on its website and social media accounts.
The Rev. Jeff Dunn, lead pastor of Christ United, explained in an interview with local media published last week that he did not want his church to appear to be in either a camp that shunned homosexuals or one that appeared to welcome homosexual acts as acceptable.
“We’ve always been a church that doesn’t condemn and it doesn’t condone. We’re never going to make somebody feel that we don’t love them,” said Dunn,
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