{"id":1680,"date":"2012-07-20T21:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T04:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/gc2012\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2012-07-20T21:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T04:07:52","slug":"passed-a-statement-of-gospel-obedience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/passed-a-statement-of-gospel-obedience\/","title":{"rendered":"Passed: A Statement of Gospel Obedience"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Robert Hoshibata (right) presiding over the final plenary session of the 2012 Western Jurisdictional Conference. Photo by Patrick Scriven.<\/em><\/p>\n

The following petition was passed by the body by an overwhelming majority.<\/p>\n

A Statement of Gospel Obedience<\/strong><\/p>\n

In response to our common belief that God\u2019s grace and love is available to all persons, the Western Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church states our belief that the United Methodist Church is in error on the subject of \u201chomosexuality\u2019s incompatibility with Christian teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

We commend to our bishops, clergy, local churches and ministry settings, the challenge to operate as if the statement in Para. 161F does not exist, creating a church where all people are truly welcome.<\/p>\n

The secretary of the Western Jurisdictional Conference will submit this statement of Gospel Obedience to the Jurisdictional College of Bishops, each Annual Conference, and chairpersons of Boards of Ordained Ministry for discussion and implementation.<\/p>\n

Presenter:\u00a0<\/strong>Krista McVey, California-Pacific Annual Conference<\/p>\n

From:\u00a0<\/strong>Methodist Federation For Social Action<\/strong><\/p>\n

Subject:\u00a0<\/strong>Gospel obedience<\/strong><\/p>\n

Petitioners:\u00a0<\/strong>Krista McVey and thirteen others, including delegates April Hall Cutting, Oregon-Idaho, and Piula Ala\u2019ilima, California-Pacific<\/p>\n

Supporting Committee members:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Delegates:
\n<\/em>* Krista McVey; Piula Alai\u2019lima, Cal-Pac;\u00a0April Hall Cutting, Or-Id<\/p>\n

Supporters:<\/em><\/p>\n

John Woodall, Cal-Pac;\u00a0Diane Rehfield, Cal-Pac;\u00a0Rosemary Davis, Cal-Pac;\u00a0Rebecca Tice, RM;\u00a0Sharon Bowles, Cal-Pac;\u00a0Phil Bowles, Cal-Pac;\u00a0* Jeanne Knepper, OI;\u00a0Winifred Keefer, DSW;\u00a0Nancy Goyings, Cal-Pac;\u00a0Randa D\u2019Aoust, Cal-Pac;
\nFran Materra, Cal-Pac<\/p>\n

Additional committee members:
\n<\/em>Joe Ange, RM;\u00a0Jeanne Audrey Powers, MN;\u00a0James Dwyer, IN<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bishop Robert Hoshibata (right) presiding over the final plenary session of the 2012 Western Jurisdictional Conference. Photo by Patrick Scriven. The following petition was passed by the body by an overwhelming majority. A Statement of Gospel Obedience In response to our common belief that God\u2019s grace and love is available to all persons, the Western […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conversation"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Day-3-Wj2012-343.jpg?fit=640%2C427&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-r6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}