To one of the worshipers, the disconnect between words and actions symbolized a problem.
“We say things that we don’t do,” said Cherith Fee-Nordling, a professor of theology at Northern Seminary . . .
The voting options, to stay or to withdraw, are being submitted by the conference’s Executive Committee. Leaving MC USA would be a constitutional change and require a two-thirds majority.
No conference has withdrawn from MC USA in the denomination’s 12-year history.