Posted on 09/19/2019 6:45:18 PM PDT by rintintin
The Albany Episcopal Diocese bishop who vowed to continue prohibiting same-sex marriages in defiance of the church's orders will face a disciplinary hearing, the Episcopal Church announced Wednesday.
In November 2018, the Rev. William H. Love spurned Episcopal Church Resolution B012, which had been passed earlier in the year and ordered bishops not to impede same-sex weddings. In an eight-page letter, Love wrote that Episcopalians who embraced same-sex relationships had been deceived by Satan, and said the Episcopal Church and "Western society" had been "hijacked by the 'Gay Rights Agenda.'"
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Mainline church wants to terminate pastor for defying the gaystapo.
Christianity takes a backseat to sexual correctness.
The world has gone mad.
Pray this man defends God and disobeys man. Resign, those people are clearly lost.
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Nothing correct about sexual correctness, but yes, it's somehow become a primary consideration.
It hasn’t been a Christian church for quite a while.
Why isn’t he long gone with his congregation to the Anglican Church I wonder?
That's what he is up against. God be with him.
"But the practical result of this principle is one on which there is no need of speculating; it works in one unvarying way. When error is admitted into the Church, it will be found that the stages of its progress are always three. It begins by asking toleration. Its friends say to the majority: You need not be afraid of us; we are few and weak; only let us alone; we shall not disturb the faith of others. The Church has her standards of doctrine; of course we shall never interfere with them; we only ask for ourselves to be spared interference with our private opinions.
Indulged in this for a time, error goes on to assert equal rights. Truth and error are two balancing forces. The Church shall do nothing which looks like deciding between them; that would be partiality. It is bigotry to assert any superior right for the truth. We are to agree to differ and any favoring of the truth, because it is truth, is partisanship. What the friends of truth and error hold in common is fundamental. Anything on which they differ is “ipso facto” non-essential. Anybody who makes account of such a thing is a disturber of the peace of the church. Truth and error are two co-ordinate powers, and the great secret of church-statesmanship is to preserve the balance between them.
From this point error soon goes on to its natural end, which is to assert supremacy. Truth started with tolerating; it comes to be merely tolerated and that only for a time. Error claims a preference for its judgments on all disputed points. It puts men into position, not as at first in spite of their departure from the Church’s faith, but in consequence of it. Their recommendation is that they repudiate that faith, and position is given them to teach others to repudiate it, and make them skillful in combating it." (pp. 195-196)
From: “THE CONSERVATIVE REFORMATION AND ITS THEOLOGY as represented in the Augsburg Confession and in the history and literature of the Evangelical Lutheran Church” by Charles P. Krauth, D.D. (1871). [Note date]
bump for carolyn
a review of American history reveals the Episcopal Church, previously the Church of England, wrote its Constitution in the same time frame and same city as the US Constitution - Philadelphia by some of the same founders. It mirrored the Confederation of States with 13 semi-autonomous dioceses and very weak central authority. Only a presiding bishop whose primary job was to chair a general convention every three years and preside over the house of 13 diocesan bishops. All power rested in the diocese, not the central government. How the church has changed!!!
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