Slavery In Methodist Episcopal Church

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From this short exploration of slavery in Methodist Episcopal Church, we can recognize that it is important for the church to keep justice. When the church advocates unjust activities like slavery, the church soon started to distort God’s massage because of what God’s message cannot be unjust. Then, the church can lose its values and meaning given by God and is seized by its greedy desires. The Methodist Episcopal Church’s history on slavery demonstrates why the church should be just regardless of whether church can get profits or not. MECS corrupted mission and gospel to attempt keeping slavery. These days, the United Methodist Church encounters many urgent and sensitive issues, and the circumstances of the church would make the church not

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