 The Global Methodist Church is changing some of its practices in the wake of its churches disaffiliating from the United Methodist Church. Among the changes, it will no longer use an annual clergy appointment system. The church formed after the United Methodists changed their book of discipline to allow same-sex marriage in homosexual clergy. It will instead allow what one clergyman calls a more fluid approach, making clergy appointments as they come, rather than an annual review. The Rev. Terry Bentley tells AL.com,