跟进：Dallas Highland Park联合卫理公会通过脱离表决：90.35%赞成，11月1日起以新名聚会
德克萨斯州 Dallas 的 Highland Park 联合卫理公会（Highland Park United Methodist Church）10月25日至26日举行全教会表决，决定脱离联合卫理公会（UMC）。教会理事会10月26日致会众信公布计票结果：在4,775张投票中，90.35%赞成与宗派断绝一切关系；投票人数约占该教会宣誓会友的三分之一。本站此前报道，该教会领导层本月初提出将去留交全教会表决，教会与年议会之间的诉讼仍在审理中。
理事会在信中表示，从这个星期日（11月1日）起，教会将以 Highland Park Methodist Church 之名聚会，并称目标是在2026年12月1日前完成分离所需的各项运作变更。教会领导层称，此举是为维护教会110年来的历史自主权，以及在选择牧者问题上的长期话语权。
不过，宗派方面并不认可表决的效力。Horizon Texas 年议会表示，会众表决本身并不能解除一间地方教会与联合卫理公会的正式关系。该年议会今年8月已就该教会2022年修改章程一事提起诉讼，10月15日又追加一项违约诉因，案件仍在 Dallas 县法院审理。本站将继续跟进。
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Follow-Up: Dallas's Highland Park United Methodist Votes to Leave the UMC: 90.35% in Favor, New Name from Nov. 1
Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, voted on Oct. 25-26 to disaffiliate from The United Methodist Church (UMC). In a letter to the congregation on Oct. 26, the church council announced that of 4,775 votes cast, 90.35% favored severing all ties with the denomination; about a third of the church's professing members voted. GSM previously reported that the church's leadership had proposed putting the question to a churchwide vote, amid ongoing litigation.
The council said the congregation will worship as Highland Park Methodist Church beginning this Sunday, Nov. 1, with a goal of completing the operational changes required by the separation by Dec. 1, 2026. Church leaders said the move preserves the church's historic autonomy over 110 years and its longstanding voice in choosing its clergy.
The denomination, however, disputes the vote's effect. The Horizon Texas Conference said a congregational vote by itself does not sever a local church's formal relationship with the UMC. The conference sued the church in August over governing-document changes made in 2022 and amended the suit on Oct. 15 to add a breach-of-contract count; the case remains pending in Dallas County court. GSM will continue to follow developments.
Related: Dallas Highland Park UMC weighs leaving the denomination: vote proposed, lawsuit pending
来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
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