Posted on 02/02/2015 6:31:03 AM PST by C19fan
It sounds as though the pastor of this congregation of anything you do is okay is all about the $$$ and will tickle even the gay member ears for more. What happens when persons practicing polygamy want to join? Or if a group practicing polyamory want to join? What can they say as these groups can use all the same arguments the gays use.
As a native Tennessean, I cannot adequately express my level of disgust at this so-called “pastor” and church.
For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.
Not only that, he's encouraging the sinner to continue in sin as "God loves everyone!"
Of course God loves His creation but He hates sin. He doesn't look the other way, merely because He loves His creation nor does he forgive sinners, even those who have asked Jesus to be their Redeemer, when they continue to blatantly sin! In fact, someone who has claimed Jesus as their Lord and Savior, yet doesn't turn from their unrepentant lifestyle, the Lord questions your sincerity of your profession.
You are right essentially the pastor has said to the gay members what you are doing is okay with God. Reading his Word shows that it clearly is not and is an abomination in His eyes.
I hope he loses 90% of his congregation
This church is not what most folks think is evangelical
It’s a non denominational church with a progressive history
It’s for libtard good works types
And propaganda for media and freeper catholic chauvanists to preen with
It’s to real evangelical like liberation theology Mary Knolls are to Legionaires of Christ if that makes any sense
another one bites the dusts
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?
No, it is different. Someone feeling same-gender attraction is not neccessarily the same as someone acting on it. If someone is willing to live one’s life chaste and not engage in homosexual acts, that is fine. It still is a far move to allow people who praise immoral sexual acts to lead a religion. I would see it just as bad as me celebrating over my sins.
Or at least have the decline just continue. Being part of a religion is very different from being a part of society. Even if said religion accepts someone, that does not mean that they must join it. In fact, the real problem is that a growing number of people see no reason to waste money and time on being part of a religion at all. And because the churches cannot acknowledge that fact, they are swatting around desperately trying to get someone to join.
Thoughts lead to actions but only actions have been condemned as an abomination by God.
>>You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
Meanwhile water STILL freezes at 32 degrees F and likewise, also according to Natural law, two members of the same sex STILL can not produce viable offspring without a sperm or an egg from a third party.
And the clock on the post-modern iteration of the natural cycle described in Romans 1:25+ keeps on ticking.
Unlike during the modern urban revolution, there were no independent entrepreneurs competing amongst each other. The world’s first city developed around its temples, and only later did palaces play a role. Its view of the world was conditioned, as in all ancient societies, by totalitarian religious belief. So the picture that comes into focus is that of a theocratic command economy, hierarchically organized , centrally directed, and regulated according to an ideology propagated by a priesthood, playing the role that, 5,000 years later, Soviet Marxists would call ‘the engineers of human souls’. Such was temple rule.
Kriwaczek, Paul (2012-03-27). Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization (p. 53). St. Martin's Press. Kindle Edition.
Same ol' Ba'al shyte, different municipal toilet.
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