Posted on 07/20/2013 5:14:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
My official response to the verdict: “Martin is dead, and society is definitely better off. The facts clearly exonerate Zimmerman. Anyone who does not agree with me needs to stop being racist.”
I bet my “mostly white church” would be burned down by the tolerant Left in no time.
Brown man shoots black man, who is attacking him in the belief that he is is a gay man.
CNN, “White Churches Unusually Quiet”
My church is full of white, brown, and few black faces. The Zimmerman trial is a non-issue, as it should be, at our Masses. The Priest concerns himself with far more substantial matters that CNN does not understand.
Prediction, look for this issue to do “this too shall pass” effort before the end of the summer.
Same here.
My Catholic parish has people of all different backrounds and NOTHING was ever brought up on the trial. The focus MUST be on JESUS and HIS WORD.
Oh? Which one is better?
I DON'T know enough, clearly. So tell me - where do traitors like Richard Land get their money, and how do we cut them off at the knees? He meets with Janet Murguia of La Raza, the U.S. Chamber and others to plot amnesty on a bi-monthly basis.
Southern Baptist is better — by default — because the liberal mainline churches are worse. The liberal churches — namely the National Council of Churches — are dreadful on everything. The Catholic Church officially said nothing but a couple of priests took the liberal position.
But because the Southern Baptist Convention came up with only a bland statement this time — and originally criticized Zimmerman last year - it deserves to be criticized. You agree, I am sure.
What’s a “white church”?
I DON'T know enough, clearly. So tell me - where do traitors like Richard Land get their money, and how do we cut them off at the knees? He meets with Janet Murguia of La Raza, the U.S. Chamber and others to plot amnesty on a bi-monthly basis.If you knew anything at all about Southern Baptist churches, with their democratic governance of individual congregations and their notorious tendency to split, it would never occur to you to capitalize “leadership.”
I haven’t been keeping track lately about “upper echelon” politics in the SBC. The point, tho, is that the individual church governs itself, and by vote of the membership calls its pastor - and sends “messengers” to the annual convention. The Convention itself - but local “associations” of churches more so in my experience, lends/gives money/pastoral support to start-up churches, which are usually initiated as an outreach from an established church to a “mission” church - a “chapel,” in the parlance - to help get the work going. But that local “chapel” is intended to become an independent church, incorporated and governed by its own membership and not obligated to defer to any external governing bodies.Input to the individual pastor from “above” is either perceived by that pastor to be the leading of the Holy Spirit - or it is taken by the individual pastor as a suggestion - nothing more. The lack of authority probably makes it more possible for people to get high-up in the organization without arousing a lot of concern over matters which the pastors and other “messengers” to the convention might not take to heart as much as you or I might.
Hence my point that capitalizing “leadership” doesn’t come naturally to a Southern Baptist. I mentioned the tendency of such churches to split; my own home church did so - and we had to call a new pastor while part of the congregation remained and part left. So the Baptist doesn’t necessarily even capitalize “leadership” within his own local church.
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