Posted on 03/02/2019 6:26:23 AM PST by Gamecock
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SC Ping?
Take it and like it. You won’t leave because you plan to bring it up next conference. You will vote on it until it passes and if it passes, you will declare the matter settled and never allow another vote on it
Gee, What could be the reason behind this?
nothing to it, God says it is an abomination, declare sin is to be repented of..stick with it, and if the lgbtq whatever community doesn’t like it, take it up with the LORD
This is the kind of BS they spew 24/7 instead of teaching biblical truth to their congregations. Hope they fold and turn their empty church buildings into something useful.
If parishioners show up on Sunday, they are accepting LGBT. If they don’t, they send a very loud and clear message against leftist leanings.
So, man believes he can change the word of God by consensus. Original sin be damned - (interesting juxtaposition of phrase, that).
How can a twisted degenerate mind believe that what GOD calls abomination can be acceptable, as if GOD has 'shadow of turning'?
What a one-sided, pro-gay, anti-biblical doctrine article.
Allowing each church to pick homosexuality is allowing homosexuality. What is hard with that math?
The wound is from the dagger in the gut that the letter madness crowd is repeatedly thrusting into congregations with their insistence that the should t have to repent. The vote to reaffirm that marriage is still real marriage isn’t a wound, it’s an attempt to pull the knife out!
Homosexuality is a sin according to God’s Word, the Bible. Jesus welcomed sinners who repented of their sin, saying “Your sin is forgiven. Go and sin no more.” That applies to all sins and all sinners.
Let’s put numbers to it. Possibly 5% LGBT want to pervert God’s Word and Jesus’ church. As Beth Ann Cook said and we have been praying this, “I don’t think we need a political strategy to address a spiritual problem.” AMEN!
The gate is narrow and we want to expand it to fit all selfish decisions that are against God.
Sin sIN, SIN> SIn, which letter is confusing.
“They shouldn’t”, not “the should t”
Ah, but homosexual “marriage” would fall into the category of sin all you want rather than sin no more.
It’s not about banning them or not including them ... it’s about calling sin what it is - sin. All are welcome. But change needs to happen. Repentance needs to happen. A determination to avoid sin and the near occasion of sin needs to happen.
But the media and the agenda twist this into some sort of banning of gays as if the church is locking them out.
To the left, religion is okay as long as it doesn’t stand for anything.
Yep, that is the gameplan...keep pestering until it passes. Note, I’m not a Methodist, but I have attended some services.
I would suggest that the bulk of Methodist Churches are in urbanized areas, which are mostly dying off....leaving marginal memberships, mostly over the age of 60. Once this does pass...about half the members will just up and walk out, and the remaining group will probably be no more than sixty to eighty members per church....not enough to sustain it.
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