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Raw Numerical Truth about the Episcopal Church (1/3 of all 6825 churches face inevitable closure)
Virtue Online ^ | August 23, 2011 | David W. Virtue

Posted on 08/28/2011 1:50:48 PM PDT by NYer

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1 posted on 08/28/2011 1:50:52 PM PDT by NYer
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To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...

For those who may be interested.


2 posted on 08/28/2011 1:52:03 PM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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In contrast, the non-denominational Twin Cities church I went to today has an average weekly attendance of 14,000 in 4 campuses around town. The Holy Spirit goes where He is welcomed.


3 posted on 08/28/2011 1:57:05 PM PDT by DManA
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Those who defy the scriptures shall be smiten by the hand of God.


4 posted on 08/28/2011 2:02:47 PM PDT by libstripper
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Thank you for posting this...the Episcopal Church has been in decline since the sixties when they initiated financial support of the Black Panthers. People walked then and they continue to walk because the leadership is totally out of touch with reality. Alabama’s new immigration law passed overwhelmingly with the support of a great majority of citizens...guess what? The current Bishop, Henry Parsley, who also voted to consecrate New Hampshire’s gay Bishop, has made the church a party to a lawsuit to have the law overturned. Our most senior church leaders deny the Virgin birth, the Trinity, the Ascension, and are more interested in the cocktail parties they attend than the great commission. But fear not, as they are turning on the spit over the hottest grill in Hell, there will be a rebuilding of the church, just as a great awakening is going to bring back our constitutional government. It is imperative for Episcopalians to remain firm in principle and ready themselves for this future battle.


5 posted on 08/28/2011 2:09:02 PM PDT by dunblak
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Thank you for posting this...the Episcopal Church has been in decline since the sixties when they initiated financial support of the Black Panthers. People walked then and they continue to walk because the leadership is totally out of touch with reality. Alabama’s new immigration law passed overwhelmingly with the support of a great majority of citizens...guess what? The current Bishop, Henry Parsley, who also voted to consecrate New Hampshire’s gay Bishop, has made the church a party to a lawsuit to have the law overturned. Our most senior church leaders deny the Virgin birth, the Trinity, the Ascension, and are more interested in the cocktail parties they attend than the great commission. But fear not, as they are turning on the spit over the hottest grill in Hell, there will be a rebuilding of the church, just as a great awakening is going to bring back our constitutional government. It is imperative for Episcopalians to remain firm in principle and ready themselves for this future battle.


6 posted on 08/28/2011 2:09:14 PM PDT by dunblak
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I guess I’m not the only one who has lost interest in The First Church of JesusChristtheCommie.


7 posted on 08/28/2011 2:13:38 PM PDT by Flintlock (Photo ID for all voters--let our dead rest in peace.)
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You can change how you do church but when you change the meaning of scripture or ignore the meaning of scripture your church will die.


8 posted on 08/28/2011 2:15:47 PM PDT by wild74
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You might say that the faithful didn’t leave the Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church left them.

Too bad about all those beautiful church buildings. They’ll probably turn them into apartments, or nightclubs, or GLBT outreach centers...


9 posted on 08/28/2011 2:15:55 PM PDT by Argus
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‘Our most senior church leaders deny the Virgin birth, the Trinity, the Ascension, and are more interested in the cocktail parties they attend than the great commission.’

In other words, they are no longer a church, simply a social club.


10 posted on 08/28/2011 2:16:15 PM PDT by FrogMom (There is no such thing as an honest democrat!)
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It seems the Episcopol church and the Republican Party both embraced Diversity over their core values, threw the doors wide open to all viewpoints and people streamed out not in.

Go figure. If you stand for nothing, you will fall for everything. At least the democrats stood for evil.


11 posted on 08/28/2011 2:23:54 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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Stunning numbers on some of these Average Sunday Ateendance numbers.....the low ones, that is.


12 posted on 08/28/2011 3:02:35 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Yeah, but at least they have no shortage of newly ordained gay pastors. < / sarcasm >


13 posted on 08/28/2011 3:31:53 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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The episcopal "church" has only survived this far because of huge endowments from long gone benefactors. Most of them would vomit if they knew how their money gifts were being used.

Example: Dean of Episcopal Divinity School, a sexually aberrant female in a recent address: "Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done"--chanted three times trying to get the audience to join her, as if in a political torchlight rally.

14 posted on 08/28/2011 3:47:56 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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... and the gays keep all the money.


15 posted on 08/28/2011 4:03:42 PM PDT by dangus
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“the Episcopal Church has been in decline since the sixties when they initiated financial support of the Black Panthers.”

WHAT????


16 posted on 08/28/2011 4:46:39 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: dunblak

They’ve been infiltrated like all other institutions. The people left instead of staying and fighting to get rid of the infiltrators.

We’re living in a post-Christian world - when did it happen...


17 posted on 08/28/2011 8:27:02 PM PDT by bronxville (Sarah will be the first American female president.)
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it’s good that even the media does not besmirch conservative Anglicans by including them with the ECUSA.


18 posted on 08/29/2011 4:23:13 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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Our most senior church leaders deny the Virgin birth, the Trinity, the Ascension,

I guess they also deny the Resurrection.

On what basis can one even call these leaders Christian any more?

19 posted on 08/29/2011 4:24:27 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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It is imperative for Episcopalians to remain firm in principle and ready themselves for this future battle.

I used to advocate that too (note: I'm a cradle Catholic so do not know the inside-out of the ECUSA), but my FRiends who have left the ECUSA tell me it is a lost cause, too far gone to do anything but leave

How would you advise Episcopalians who stay in the ECUSA? Especially when even the basics of Christianity are now denied there?

20 posted on 08/29/2011 4:26:44 AM PDT by Cronos ( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
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