Catholic ping.
Ping!
They are going to make a lot more money from all the offerings the homosexuals are going to give them when they start going to church.
dyslexia is not your friend;)
I swear I read the headline as ‘putting their blue dress days behind them’
LOL!!!!
The problem is not liberal vs conservative. True Christianity is a force, philosophy and FAITH that cannot be pigeonholed.
The answer is to teach the truths of Christianity and that includes not only charity, but also living the life of a follower of Jesus Christ - which means a DAILY walk in conversion from sin into holiness.
Not an easy thing to do, but it is possible with humility and a strong prayer life and faith in God.
Churches which preach only social justice without the conversion process are no more that glorified social workers.
With modern technology, you can teach seminary in a spare room of a church. Same for regular college classes.
Exactly.
Luther Seminary in St. Paul, mentioned in the article, is an ELCA seminary. Its problems are self imposed. It is hard to see how a believer in God and the Bible would choose to attend an ELCA seminary. It is also hard to see how someone who doesn’t believe in God and the Bible would wish to attend a seminary at all.
Too bad that these bureaucrats are often the ones pushing homosexuality and more subtly abortion against the will of the congregants. It would have been better if they downsized maybe 50 years ago. Someone once told me that entering seminary is the way some avoided the Vietnam draft. I have observed men and some women that appear to not even have the gift to be a pastor but probably not any other career either, graduates of seminary and shuffled off to small country churches. Never building, just maintaining or decreasing members. Many have been nice but wierd. ELCA is my reference. And yes this blue model put many requirements on the pay and benefits of pastors. When the money runs out, they are called somewhere else. Or worse.
BEEP!
If Truth is simply whatever is being promoted most vigorously by politicians and the media at the time, what need do I have to go to a seminary, or what need is there for a minister to preach it?
Just turn on the TV and sit back.
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I doubt if their “Pink Days” will ever be behind them.
(See “Good Bye, Good Men”)
http://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Good-Men-Liberals-Corruption/dp/0895261448
Ain't that the truth!
The clergy became a ‘profession’ like the others. People pursued careers in the ministry, complete with grievance procedures and pension programs. Denominations built up regional and national organizations that were staffed with professional staff. Progress was seen as replacing volunteers with certified, graduate educated professionals: Directors of Sacred Music and Directors of Christian Education. People built lots of buildings they couldn’t afford to maintain. From an organization perspective, denominational bureaucracies were like GM and IBM in the 1950s and 1960: hierarchical, growing every year, and offering employees jobs for life.