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Darkness? What darkness? Somebody turn on the lights!
...Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch? He belongs to a far-left church that embraces marriage redefinition, gun control, and the theory of man-caused global warming.
He belongs to St. John's Episcopal Church in Boulder, Colo., the Episcopal diocese of Colorado confirmed on Wednesday. Church bulletins show that the judge has been an usher three times in recent months. His wife Louise frequently leads the intercessory prayer and reads the weekly Scripture at Sunday services, and his daughters assist in ceremonial duties during church services as acolytes.
The first word that St. John's uses to describe itself on its website and Facebook page is "inclusive," and the church is led by a female rector. On its website, the church encourages members to write letters to Congress asking for actions addressing climate change.
That's not all. Its website also calls for members to lobby their congressmen for more gun control.
Rev. Susan Springer has said she is pro-gay marriage and offers blessings to same-sex couples
The church's Rev. Ted Howard also signed a letter slamming the 'disrespectful rhetoric' directed at Islam as Trump floated a ban on Muslim immigrants[.] ...
The Emerging Church
It’s so bad, it’s in there twice
John 1:1-5
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understooda it.
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Matt 19:4-6
4 "Haven't you read," he replied, "that at the beginning the Creator 'made them male and female,'a 5 and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?b 6 So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
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John 14:24
24 He who does not love me will not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my own; they belong to the Father who sent me.
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I’m not much concerned about the new age movement or universalism being mistaken for Christianity.
Legalistic churches are addressed in the letter to Ephesus in Rev 2. The good news is that that truly are striving to do things right. The down side is that they are the only church threatened with loss of their candlestick due to their lack of love.
Hyper-Grace: the truth is that grace can legitimately be pushed right up to the borders of hyper-grace. We really are forgiven. Everything, including my Christian walk, truly is based on grace, because it’s grace from first to last. But Paul warns us we be saying, “Hey let’s go on sinning, because we have a ‘get out of jail free card’ called grace.
Prosperity gospel is so silly that I’m surprised people are fooled by it. At root, it’s that old love of money. You cannot serve both God and mammon. Those pursuing this end will shortly discover it’s a dead end. They’re not getting prosperous, others are off of them.
The emerging church is just another heretical teaching. The scripture keeps us in line, and beyond that the history of the church is an additional check.
Seriously, though, who wants a fake savior and a fake assembly? Refer to prosperity gospel preachers above.
I counted five...
Certainly it is not by obeying God's laws that one is saved, but following His moral laws and commandments is a requirement for progressive sanctificatio, of becoming spiritually mature. Nowhere in the bBible do we see counsel for a regenerated believer to break or abandon holy laws.
It was about the Pharisees' hypocracy tha Jesus warned His disciples. He did approve of the Pharisees' abedience to the law, and suggested that they make complete their law-biding behavior.