UMC Cuts Asbury Theological Seminary over LGBTQ Stance

UMC Removes Asbury Seminary From Approved Schools Over Sexuality Dispute

The United Methodist Church has removed Asbury Theological Seminary from its list of approved schools for ordination candidates, ending a relationship amid ongoing disagreements over biblical teaching on marriage and sexuality. The seminary said the UMC’s University Senate voted to remove Asbury from its list of approved theological institutions for students preparing for ordained ministry in the denomination.

UMC cuts Asbury Theological Seminary over LGBTQ stance

The United Methodist Church’s accrediting body has decided that Asbury Theological Seminary will no longer be an approved school to prepare United Methodist clergy.

Asbury Seminary Removed from United Methodist Church Approved List Over Marriage, Sexuality Standards

Such is the time, great deception, the rise of false teachers and unsound doctrine, the great falling away, the Laodicean church being the end times church, that large, longstanding denominations are cutting ties with Biblically sound seminaries to appease the world, accommodate sin, and become unrecognizable according to the word of God — while they pretend to be Christian churches. Asbury Seminary in Kentucky refused to affirm and conform to t…

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Asbury Theological Seminary cut by United Methodist Church over same-sex marriage issue

Reading Time: 3 minutes By Adelle M. Banks | Religion News Service (RNS) — Asbury Theological Seminary, a 103-year-old Kentucky evangelical seminary, is no longer approved as a school for United Methodist candidates for ordained ministry, the school announced Thursday (June 25). It attributed its removal by the United Methodist Church’s university accrediting body to the school’s objections to a new version of the denomination’s social principle…