The pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S. has launched a bid for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas. The move upends the race in a normally Republican state as the GOP’s small majority seems less secure than it was a year ago. The Rev. Adam Hamilton enters the mix as a potentially formidable candidate, though it wasn’t immediately clear how many of the eight other, lesser-known Democrats who’ve announced for the Aug. 4 primary would drop out. The winner will face incumbent Republican Roger Marshall, who aligned himself closely with President Donald Trump in his first run for the Senate in 2020. Hamilton, 61, has a national following among mainline Protestants, and he’s built his Church of the Resurrection over the past 35 years in the Kansas City-area with about 22,000 members — giving him a base from which to tap volunteers and donors. Adam Hamilton talks to voters as he wraps up a U.S.…