Posted on 09/13/2018 9:41:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have more experience than most with many denominations, and I have been in ministry.
What I now say is true:
If I went into almost any congregation and proclaimed myself an active homoerotic male who struggles mightily with his carnal temptations, I would likely be met with compassion and patience. Many would openly offer to be available to me to provide loving support and guidance.
If I went into almost any congregation and proclaimed myself an abstinent heterosexual male who struggles mightily with his carnal temptations, I would likely be met with awkwardness and disapproval. Some would privately tell me it was inappropriate to tell the group rather than the pastor.
Nearly everything in the institutionalized church has been subverted or perverted.
This started in many cases through so-called music ministries - infamous for not requiring spiritually-minded leaders and members.
Acts 7: If the table waiters were required to be spiritually minded, then the same goes for music ministers. Musicianship is secondary.
In the 1980s, the homoerotic males infiltrated the churches by embedding themselves in choirs. Once entrenched, they got sympathetic people on their side.
Not true. Infant baptism has been around since the earliest days of the church. I don’t have time to look up chapter and verse right now, but the gist of it was that a “head of household” became Christian, and the entire household (including infants) was baptized and came into the church with him.
When you have to choose between "truth" and "love", the answer is to choose degradation. /sarc
First, don’t attend a church which includes the unbiblical practice of infant baptism.
Second, “attendance” is far different than “visiting,” the former implying involvement and the second implying inquiry.
Another, even more difficult, problem presenting itself more and more is “transexuals” invading churches demanding to get involved, including evangelical Protestant churches. What do pastors do when these sick people have “gone all the way” with the genital mutilation and want to use the women’s restrooms? Pretend along with them?
Has already happened with at least one Evangelical church which allowed a “transgender (fake) woman” to attend. The stuff hit the fan, though, when the church forbade the cross-dressing man from attending a women’s overnight retreat. The sex-confused man made it an issue on social media, as usual, and separated from the church.
What happens when they make this a “legal” issue?
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