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To: Cicero
The Episcopaleans and ELCA have trouble enough with bishops ~ now they are staffing up on gay bishops.

It would be better for them to decide finally that at least for them having bishops is a failed church program. Then they can give up having this office. Turning over ownership of places of worship to the congregations would be another reform I'd advocate for them.

Then they'd be free to get on with trying to know God rather than indulging the proclivities of gay blades.

31 posted on 06/01/2013 10:19:37 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

The old joke - why can’t episcopaleans play chess?

They cant tell their bishops from their queens....
sad but true


33 posted on 06/01/2013 10:21:30 AM PDT by Mom MD (A million people attended Obamas inauguration. 14 of them actually missed work)
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To: muawiyah

It isn’t the fault of having the Biblical Office of Bishop; it is the failure to follow the Biblical pattern for selecting those who occupy said Office:

1 Timothy 3:1-7 (NRSV)

The saying is sure: whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a noble task. 2Now a bishop must be above reproach, married only once, temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher, 3not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, and not a lover of money. 4He must manage his own household well, keeping his children submissive and respectful in every way— 5for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church? 6He must not be a recent convert, or he may be puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil. 7Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace and the snare of the devil.


41 posted on 06/01/2013 10:37:52 AM PDT by lightman (Buzzed and buggered bath house Barry: the Benghazi bungler.)
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