Posted on 07/26/2015 11:45:39 AM PDT by magna carta
Kudos to The Leader News for publishing a story on the Bethel United Church of Christ, one of four Houston-area churches performing same sex weddings. In their article “Local church embraces marrying local LGBT couples” The Leader News performed a valuable community service by educating their readership that Bethel United Church of Christ is one of four affiliates in Houston performing same-sex weddings.
Teddy Kissell, acting interim pastor, described Bethel United Church of Christ as an “open and affirming” congregation reflective of the community:
“There are 14 UCC affiliates in Houston, and the beauty of our denomination is that we are locally governed,” Teddy Kissell, acting interim pastor, said. “We reflect the community. There are four of us in Houston performing same sex weddings. We four are what we call ‘open and affirming’ congregations. We try to personalize each wedding – a wedding should be personal – but keep the worship in it too.”
So exactly how “open and affirming” is the community to a point of view that Bethel United Church of Christ is not an “of Christ” church? And what does “the community” worship?
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United Church of Christ is NOT the mainstream Church of Christ denominations. It is an ultra-left denomination primarily out of the northeast.
Extra points for the Doctor Zhivago reference.
Christ won’t like these homosexuals using his name for their fake ‘church’
He won’t like it AT ALL!
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>>United Church of Christ is NOT the mainstream Church of Christ denominations. It is an ultra-left denomination primarily out of the northeast.
The UCC is defined as one of the 7 Mainline Protestant Churches in the USA. You are correct though that it is ultra-left. I attended an ecumenical event at one here in NE Florida last year and everything about it gave me the creeps, from the giant rainbow banners out front to the giant red “God is still speaking” banner over the pulpit (which is Prog-speak for “the culture is not done defining God yet”).
“Your attitude has been noticed, you know.
IT’S BEEN NOTICED!”
(I saw that too and enjoyed a memory of one of my favorite movies. :-) )
I think it’s the best movie ever made.
I won’t argue that! ;-)
“You cannot serve God and Lenin.”
“You cannot serve God and Gramsci,” either!!!!
Last month, I had to attend a memorial service at a Unitarian Universalist “church”. Bizarre to say the least.
...you cannot serve God and Obama (ardent admirer of both men).
Whom do yo admire? Although Christ is both God and man, God is not a man!
And if one serves obama, one serves Gramsci, and arguably Lenin!
There are plenty of obamunists and obamabots who believe that they also serve God—even as pastors or priests—but it’s next to impossible at least!!!!
That is what I meant. Obama is a son of Gramscii and Lenin
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