From the Cal-Nev website: "After the conclusion of our Annual Conference Session, the California-Nevada Conference Cabinet went into a retreat to review the actions and the discussions that took place during our conference session and to initiate the appropriate follow-up actions that were required. The Cabinet, fulfilling its disciplinary responsibility that “it is expected to speak to the conference and for the conference to the spiritual and temporal issues that exist within the region encompassed by the conference.” (2016 Book of Discipline, ¶424.2), found it was necessary to issue a statement about disaffiliation and general apportionments."

Here are highlights [Read the entire statement] (UMNS Story)

1. Does disaffiliation from The United Methodist Church fulfill the promise of the Wesleyan Spirit and Methodist Ethos? Our belief is that it does not and if we are to embrace our General Rules and plant a stake in our connectional system, we must remain on the side of unity. Wesley, himself, found affinity with others whose theological opinions were opposite his own.
2. How does disaffiliation fulfill our calling to leadership as a jurisdiction within the denomination? Some members of the Wesley Covenant Association, Institute for Religion and Democracy, and others have been planning this deconstruction of the connection for almost 40 years. The schismatic endgame of this strategy is apparent. Yet many of their movement are no longer represented in General and Jurisdictional delegations. This does not mean the tide is turning; the numbers bear witness that they are not. However, facilitating THEIR exit should be the primary goal rather than having us waste valuable time and energy planning what is ultimately the will of the WCA and IRD.

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