JCD 1179

http://archives.umc.org/interior_judicial.asp?mid=263&JDID=1299&JDMOD=VWD&SN=1100&EN=1189

This request for a declaratory decision from Northern Illinois dealt with a minor shift from what they asked for in JCD 1178. In that decision., the matter related to transfers of membership. This request relates to those seeking membership by confession of faith.

This time the Council put in its ruling the different routes to membership that the General Conference left when it only modified Paragraph 225 and not Paragraph 214. While sending the two separate requests might have covered that difference, the Council overturned the Conference resolution for the same reasons it did in JCD 1178.

Again, the concurring opinions add a little more background in church law that are of value.