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Anglican Church ‘may cease to exist in 20 years’
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| 13 July 2011
| Yorkshire Post
Posted on 07/14/2011 6:09:32 AM PDT by Cronos
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he is unfortunately correct.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:09:37 AM PDT
by
Cronos
To: Cronos
“The average age of congregations was 61, with many above that, he said.”
Um, I’m guessing that about half are above that and half are below 61.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:15:27 AM PDT
by
JBR34
To: Cronos
i’m her 8th old man named Henery, Henery the VIIIth I am
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:15:55 AM PDT
by
babble-on
To: Cronos
Leftist ideologies mixed with theology leads to heresies. The Anglican church has been wracked by heresies for 40 years or more. The death of this church will be a deserved one as they have largely left Christ behind and picked up the torch of social justice. (The same can be said of several other mainline churches.)
To: Cronos
Maybe being the first Christian denomination to cave on contraception back in 1930 wasn’t such a good idea after all ...
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:20:39 AM PDT
by
Campion
("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies when they become fashions." -- GKC)
To: Campion
If being socially relevant is your goal, you will become socially-irrelevant.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:24:03 AM PDT
by
rstrahan
To: Campion
it's incredible how one little step on the slippery slope can lead to destruction. They approved of contraception in the 1930s, then ok to divorce, divorced pastors, pastoresses, "tolerance of gays", bishopesses, gay "celibate" pastors and pastoresses and finally gay marriage and gay married pastors and pastoresses.
And within a hundred years that denomination disappears
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:27:00 AM PDT
by
Cronos
( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
To: Cronos
“These congregations will be led by fewer and fewer stipendiary clergy...”
What does ‘stipendiary clergy’ mean? Government-paid clergy?
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:27:07 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: rstrahan
If you look at the Lutheran ELCA churches people are leaving them like no tomorrow because they are so Leftist.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:28:35 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Cronos
Well, when the UK and the rest of Europe separated themselves from spiritual belief and decided to embrace secularism, it left the vacuum that nature so abhors.
Not hard to guess who’s stepping up to fill that spiritual vacuum.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:30:19 AM PDT
by
ScottinVA
(As a party that gives Obama what he wants, what again is the GOP`s 2012 selling point?)
To: Cronos
To: Jack Hydrazine
Bingo. We couldn’t leave our old ELCA church fast enough. The Music Director (who was gay) thought it was hysterical that the church next to the meeting hall where the ELCA bigwigs decided to allow Gay and Lesbian clergy got hit by lightning within hours of the decision.
That Church has become one big leftist social club.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:46:20 AM PDT
by
GeorgeTex
(Obama-Four M President (Mendacious Manchurian Muslim Marxist))
To: ScottinVA
"western" europe :) Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia are quite religious (Hungary recently amended its Constitution to start with
We are proud that our King Saint Stephen has created our country, Hungary, with strong foundations at a thousand years had taken our country as member of Christian Europe and "God bless Hungary"
it protects the institution of marriage as between a man and a woman, a matrimonial relation, voluntarily established.
and Russia is returning in droves back to Christianity.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:47:38 AM PDT
by
Cronos
( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
To: GeorgeTex
did you join the LCMS, if I might add? I think it’s a very conservative Lutheran Church, no gay pastors, no pastoresses, no nonsense.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:50:07 AM PDT
by
Cronos
( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
To: Cronos
Another 10 years on, some extrapolations put the Church of England as no longer functionally extant at all.
Maybe because they use words like “extant” instead of presenting relevant teaching in normal English to a younger population. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a place for churchy language, but not when you’re trying to make a point to the world at large.
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:51:08 AM PDT
by
jagusafr
("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
To: rstrahan
Exactly. By giving away to every PC social issue they have resigned themselves to moral ambiguity.
“Do you own thing, Man. It’s cool. Who am I to judge your behavior as good or evil. In fact, it’s not necessary to go to church or even bring you children up with a religious education”
To: 17th Miss Regt
"...wracked by heresies for 400 years or more" There, I fixed it for you
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:55:55 AM PDT
by
donmeaker
(I)
To: jagusafr
that’s something I think about too — I think we need to retain the beauty and prayerfulness of the original liturgy, but sermons or discussing like this “extant” are not “churchy” language, rather a lame attempt at obfuscation by utilizing obscure words
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posted on
07/14/2011 6:58:17 AM PDT
by
Cronos
( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
To: Campion
Maybe being the first Christian denomination to cave on contraception back in 1930 wasnt such a good idea after all ... ROTFLMAO! So caving on contraception is the culprit? LOL!
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posted on
07/14/2011 7:02:23 AM PDT
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
To: Campion
Maybe being the first Christian denomination to cave on contraception back in 1930 wasnt such a good idea after all ...
ROTFLMAO! So caving on contraception is the culprit? LOL!
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posted on
07/14/2011 7:02:45 AM PDT
by
Tennessean4Bush
(An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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