The way I see it everything changes… or dies out eventually.  Evolution is a basic fact of life.  Look at these magnolia seed pods.  They dropped from a magnificent, huge tree on our hill. Fossilized specimens of magnolia trees have confirmed its presence on Planet Earth for at least 20 million years ago.  It evolved from plants identified and called by botanists Magnoliaceae which can be dated back 95 million years. Anybody interested in the details of its evolution can easily learn the theories of why the flower bud of the magnolia developed bracts rather than sepals.  It all has something to do with survival.  

My point is that everything that exists today will continue to exist only if it changes in whatever ways are necessary to live in changing environments, in new realities. The Methodist Church will change or it will cease to exist.  Some people within the church would prefer to see the church die rather than change. Consider the cultural volcano that is erupting within the Methodist Church after a Pennsylvania conference defrocked...took back the ordination for ministerial service from a pastor who dared to perform a marriage ceremony for two adult men who wanted to be a family the way one man and one woman can legally bind together to be a family.  Although homosexuality has long been a historically verifiable characteristic of homo sapiens (sometimes called Homo sapiens sapiens), primates of the family Hominidae, the only extant species of the genus Homo, some of the species simply refuse to accept a cultural reality that will forever be part of the human condition…  one man loving another man and one woman loving another woman, out in the open, holding hands in public, kissing in public, expressing adoration for each other, and getting married to form a family unit. 

The Methodist Church has among its clergy many, many people who are unwilling to go on acquiescing to the demands of ignorant members of their denomination and of their churches.  The life of their church depends on its willingness to adapt to new cultural realities. The Methodist Church can continue to gather itself around such fools as the duck dynasty reality TV star who declared that homosexuality is a form of beastiality, or it can choose to live.  If I were a member of that church I would vote for a living church, not a dying one.