Posted on 07/05/2015 3:42:45 PM PDT by NYer
FYI ping!
I am astonished the United Methodist Church has not just come out openly for gay marriage. I am also astonished that any real family would attend services at one of their churches.
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Most reasonable people don’t need Jesus to define marriage.
I knew a Methodist pastor who had Christmas cards from Daniel Ortega, Fidel Castro and other noteworthy communists on his mantel. Does that tell you where they’re coming from?
>>To which Mefford, the “Director of Civil and Human Rights” for the United Methodist Church’s General Board of Church and Society, replied:
The General Board of Communists and Socialists is not Christian. I left the UMC last year, but I still have some acquaintances in that social club, so I’ve been asking them about the SCOTUS decision. Like every Prog win, they all say that the time for debate is over and now we need to come together to “heal”. Notice how its never “over” until they win?
How is if that he never read Mark 10:6 and Matthew 19:4?
I know better than to question a “Methodist official”. Ooooooooh!
If that’s not blaspheming the Holy Spirit, I don’t know what is.
Jesus never asked you to ask.
(Zing!)
...nor does Jesus need permission from this fruit loop in order to define it.....which He did through His revealed Word.
My guess is that he’s never asked Jesus anything else either.
Many will say to me “Lord, Lord.....”
“...I never knew you. Depart from me.”
Jesus doesn’t need your help, either.
>>I am astonished the United Methodist Church has not just come out openly for gay marriage.
They can’t until they change their Book of Discipline at next year’s General Conference.
Some people choose these churches for some reason. But there is also a segment that grew up in a particular denomination or faith and feel a cultural attachment or some tradition and continue to go there. Makes no sense to me either.
No issue is ever settled until it's settled the way liberals want it settled--then suddenly, it's settled, and we're all supposed to "move on" to the next issue that isn't settled, because that next issue hasn't been settled the way the liberals want it settled.
I have been a former Methodist for 26 years--no, I take that back: the United Methodist Church has been a former Methodist church for at least 26 years.
Aren’t they one of the ones with tons of African members, if I recall? And they keep voting it down? I bet there is generally a pretty wide divide between the Africans and US types.
Freegards
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