The Catholic Church is not experiencing these wrenching changes. Orthodox are doing pretty well, too. It helps when you have 2000 years of continuous traditionn and your beliefs are not subject to a congregational vote.
God will have to pour his New Wine into New Wineskins. The old ones are worthless to hold anything of value.
My side wasn’t mentioned. The side that thinks homosexuals are mentally ill individuals who should go back in the closet and stay there.
Stop trying to recruit others to their sickness which is becoming epidemic.
And especially leave the kids alone.
The third way is the liberal way, just at a slower speed.
The “third way” has been standard progressive jargon for a century (and not just in religion, but politics in general), because they understand it is a way to achieve their goal. They may achieve it more slowly, but in the end, they win.
The conservatives in the Methodist Church made a change in governance that makes it increasingly impossible for the left to prevail. The new Methodist growth is occurring overseas in Africa and Asia and as it grows it adds new votes and representation to the orthodox.
“our old attitudes toward women’s ordination.”
I’ve still got that “old” attitude concerning women’s ordination a/k/a ordain men only.
It’s an attitude shared by many Christian men and women alike of all races. And more importantly, it’s THE Biblical position:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20timothy%202:11-15%20&version=ESVUK
“Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. Yet she will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.”
Bottom line is many parents bring their children to church to assist them in developing as Christians in a safe environment. Once the homosexual recruiters infiltrate a parish, the safe environment is gone and the parents leave, taking their children with them. This is how the Episcopal church is being destroyed from within.
The real churches will survive even if smaller. The others will fail because of one thing .... they are missing the glue .... real faith in God.
>> They believe conservatives are simply on the wrong side of history
I don’t mind being on the “wrong side of history”.
I seriously don’t want to be on the wrong side of God Almighty though. That’s infinitely more important.
On the other side you have conservatives who want to see the church maintain purity and biblical fidelity.
This should not be liberal vs conservative, but simple right from wrong.
Leviticus (KJV)
18:22 Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is
abomination.
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Is that difficult to understand?
perhaps, just perhaps, the protestant revolution was not a good idea after all....???
There. . .fixed it.