Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
When the cancer of apostasy eats into the leadership of a church, it inevitably dies. God Word will prevail against the gates of hell.
Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
Be rooted in Christ!
And they feel good about it, just like government pleasing and catering to the few as they sh!t on the majority in doing so.
They REPLACED biblical teaching with the latest socialist and PC crap. Even back then.
I heard pro-gay sermons, I heard anti-gun sermons, I heard sermons that equated people with AIDS to saints, I heard we need to raise taxes sermons, I heard that the miracles in the Bible were probably not miracles, etc.
Nothing was BASED on the Bible. I would go home frustrated and mad. Soon, i started giving less and less on the offering plate.
Then I left and eventually so did most of the congregation.
The Episcopal Church in my town does have the prettiest stone church - right by a lake. I think that is ALL it has now.
BTW - I joined a Bible based Baptist church. It grows and grows every year. They have had to move/build three times in the last 10 years - to a BIGGER church.
Believe in nothing and at the same time believe in everything, and this is what you get.
Touchstone magazine has had some excellent articles over the years on the Anglican/Episcopalian church. The only true synod left today is the African convention, as the American and British have now left the tenets of the faith behind in order to be politically correct. Many of the moral leaders still left in America have now sought reconciliation with the catholic church.
In our affluent suburban community all the politically correct mainline Protestant churches are dying.
The Roman Catholic church, the Baptists, the independents and our church, the church of the Nazarene - you know, the ones that still take the Bible seriously - are all doing just fine, thank you very much.
Young people are hungry for truth and morality, and they are flocking to these churches in droves. The crumbling infrastructure of the mainline churches is not their real estate, but their theology.
there is an Episcopal Church in a town less than an hour from where I live that has doubled in size in the past ten years. Of course, the rector is a conservative traditionalist. The congregation has a good mixture but predominately is conservative. It seems they leave their personal differences outside the church door when they enter and kneel before the altar. However most other churches have lost membership.
I would appreciate if someone could tell me, aren’t there “two” Episcopal churches in the U.S.? ELCA... and another, more conservative version? Also, how does the American Episcopal church (one, or both versions) fit with the Church of England?
Thank you.
there is an Episcopal Church in a town less than an hour from where I live that has doubled in size in the past ten years. Of course, the rector is a conservative traditionalist. The congregation has a good mixture but predominately is conservative. It seems they leave their personal differences outside the church door when they enter and kneel before the altar. However most other churches have lost membership.
Many are finding the true light in the Anglican Church of North America (ACNA)
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The same thing is happening with our nation.
The main problem with them is that they have an agenda ... theirs, not God’s!
The disease that is roaring through numerous organizations.