Boldness

Title: Boldness

March 3, 2019

United Methodist Special Call General Conference – St. Louis, Missouri February 2019

The United Methodist Special Call General Conference 2019:

The purpose is to receive and act on a report from the Commission on a Way Forward, authorized to examine paragraphs in The Book of Discipline concerning human sexuality and to explore options to strengthen church unity.

¶ 304.3 Qualifications for Ordination While persons set apart by the Church for ordained ministry are subject to all the frailties of the human condition and the pressures of society, they are required to maintain the highest standards of holy living in the world. The practice of homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching. Therefore self-avowed practicing homosexuals are not to be certified as candidates, ordained as ministers, or appointed to serve in The United Methodist Church. 1. "Self-avowed practicing homosexual" is understood to mean that a person openly acknowledges to a bis