JCD 1121

http://archives.umc.org/interior_judicial.asp?mid=263&JDID=1238&JDMOD=VWD&SN=1100&EN=1181

Western North Carolina had a policy that allowed local churches to pick and choose among the various apportionments they would pay. When a question of law was brought about that policy, the bishop ruled it was contrary to the Discipline and that the conference’s paying of apportionments had declined significantly since the passing of the policy. The Judicial Council affirmed his ruling, pressing the necessity of all churches’ full participation in order for the Church to conduct ministries that local churches could not conduct on their own.