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CHURCH Pastor: I miscalculated impact of LGBTQ-affirming vote
One News Now ^ | January 15, 2018 | Bill Bumpas, Jody Brown

Posted on 04/23/2018 2:07:04 PM PDT by fwdude

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Another apostate church withers on its way to an inexorable death. People local to DFW will notice the numerous plugs for Wilshire Baptist on radio stations as they desperately try to stem the bleeding.
1 posted on 04/23/2018 2:07:05 PM PDT by fwdude
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"Pastor George Mason"

2 posted on 04/23/2018 2:09:42 PM PDT by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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3 posted on 04/23/2018 2:11:55 PM PDT by heterosupremacist (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. - (Thomas Jefferson)
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He is lying and should not be a Baptist Preacher - he knew full well he would be severed from the Baptist Convention but being a greedy plate grabbing “Gotta-a-Great-Gig” cowboy, he probably is a liberal as they come.


4 posted on 04/23/2018 2:12:33 PM PDT by Jumper
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"But Mason's main point of rebuttal, according to Vicari, seems to be that churches across the country are struggling with attendance."

Churches are struggling with attendance because there are very few that preach and teach a true gospel. If they did, I'll bet people would be beating down the doors.

See my tagline.

5 posted on 04/23/2018 2:12:50 PM PDT by ducttape45 ("Righteousness exalteth a nation; but sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34)
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"open to all, closed to none."

What the hell does that even mean, except to some kind of vague, cheap virtue-signalling gesture? Our world runs on these empty slogans now - politics, religion, commerce.

6 posted on 04/23/2018 2:13:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: fwdude

I’m betting milquetoast sermons. Prove me wrong.


7 posted on 04/23/2018 2:13:45 PM PDT by Salvavida
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All sinners are welcome in my church. Just don’t expect us to affirm your sin and pretend it’s alright.


8 posted on 04/23/2018 2:17:25 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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It is the sign over the highway to hell.


9 posted on 04/23/2018 2:18:21 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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Why be Christian if all lifestyles are equal?

People who want a liberal church can join a mainline denomination.

If you want commitment to a Bible-believing lifestyle, there are options.

That Baptist church doesn’t represent it.


10 posted on 04/23/2018 2:19:17 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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I am tired of the LGBTQIDIOTs. While sinners belong in church (thank God!), that is only once they are at least close to ready to repent, not when they are still celebrating and recruiting to expand their numbers.


11 posted on 04/23/2018 2:19:22 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: ducttape45

The more conservative churches, like the fairly new Presbyterian Church of America, are practically exploding in growth.


12 posted on 04/23/2018 2:19:25 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (Progressives are turning America into "Harrison Bergeron" if conceived by Ayn Rand.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

A church that isn’t calling sinners to repentance isn’t doing its job.


13 posted on 04/23/2018 2:19:35 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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I would point out that Hell is ...”Open to all, closed to none”


14 posted on 04/23/2018 2:19:49 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: fwdude

It’s my old church. Certainly, not what they taught when I went there. They even had boys and girls swimming in different pools back then.


15 posted on 04/23/2018 2:19:53 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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“Vicari says she’s praying that the Holy Spirit will open the church’s eyes to God’s truth so that they can spread the gospel without compromise.”

Except the little part about affirming homosexuality, huh?


16 posted on 04/23/2018 2:19:54 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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I’m betting milquetoast sermons. Prove me wrong.

Yep. Not based on any scripture whatsoever, either.

17 posted on 04/23/2018 2:20:55 PM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I want to be careful how I say this.

But, radical/activist homosexuals, also tend to be irreligious.

Trying to say, he should not have expected some ground swell of new homosexual members.

But on the other hand, should have anticipated some criticism from existing members. And in the worst case, attrition of members who don’t abide the new policy if the church.


18 posted on 04/23/2018 2:22:24 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Blood of Tyrants

If you have to avoid offending the lavender mafia, where’s the truth?


19 posted on 04/23/2018 2:22:48 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Also s want to say, liberals in general, who would applaud this virtue signal, also tend to be irreligious. So this virtue signal to the liberal crowd likewise would yield very few new members.


20 posted on 04/23/2018 2:23:57 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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