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Posted on 03/02/2019 6:26:23 AM PST by Gamecock
United Methodist Church members around the globe are divided by the church’s newly strengthened ban on same-sex marriages and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer clergy. Some South Carolina United Methodist churches are struggling with how to respond and move forward.
Seeing as how there are several explicit warnings in the Bible against these pervisions, I don't see why there is any struggle. If your church believes in the Bible and God, end of discussion.
The UMC minister I spoke with was overjoyed the LGBTQ agenda was shot down!
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What a ridiculously ham-fisted attempt at sleight of hand from this self-regarding preacher.
He reminds me of Congress members who, when asked a direct question, evade it entirely and say ‘I think it’s more important that we talk about X.’
No, it isn’t. And would someone ask the preacher if it’s a ‘little thing’ why the church is holding a make-or-break vote on it?
“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.”
This is how the ELCA did it. The sad part is that most of the elderly folks in our local ELCA church (the one I left because the writing was on the wall) still continued going and supporting it. Giving their hard-earned income to support Satan’s minions and his evil work. Eventually the Methodist church will succumb. They know that the drip-drip-drip method works over time.
I am curious just what he would consider the "big issues" which should concern the Methodist Church. Global warming? Open borders? Getting right with Islam? Single payer health care?
Great quote!
They just need limit the power of the Africans in order for it to pass
God’s word is why we have Churches - they’re not social clubs...
So, man believes he can change the word of God by consensus. Original sin be damned - (interesting juxtaposition of phrase, that).
Great point! Adam and Eve voted ‘narrowly’ to approve changing God’s command and ate the fruit. Still suffering over that.
My Catholic fellows think they can keep pushing their same abomination and think that will somehow work out better too. God will not be mocked forever. My church’s mess is a perfect example: He is letting the Prodigal’s son behavior of living with swine teach the lesson again. We laity have to fix this...again. Splitting off only makes Christianity weaker.
There is no where else to go. Stand up and fight for His Church like never before. Don’t do whar Adam did and blame the woman!
“What’s going to happen in your local churches is pastors like myself are going to stand up on Sunday morning — we know which way our body leans — and we’re going to remind them that we are here to hold the door open for lost people and that you cannot do that if you are only looking in a mirror.”
How about looking to God and the Holy Spirit for guidance as to how to lead the congregation? Oh, wait. One would have to be repentant to receive that Grace.
Actually, it’s entirely proper to talk about the sexual morals that Scripture commends as well as what is forbidden ... from the pulpit to the classroom. I’m not talking about folks gossipping, or telling dirty jokes or innuendo here because those are actually thing you can find Scripture that’s against them too ... but of course bringing up those Scriptures to educate or challenge is entirely proper too.
I dimly recall that once upon a time being seen as a prude or morally upright was one of the ways to get accused of being a fascist by these sexual liberation types whose notion of freedom and Liberty often seems to rise no higher than someone’s crotch ... we let those libertine twits convince too many folks that they were right when God and His Word is right.
Amos4:11 “I overthrew some of you, As God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a firebrand plucked from the burning; Yet you have not returned to Me,” Says the Lord.
Revelation 3:16 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.
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This is a grave structural flaw in the UMC, that they have allowed what should be business meetings about the organization to be turned into free-for-alls to modify the meaning of the scriptures. The language of litigiousness is overwhelming in all reports from the Conferences. I'm not hearing the Bible quoted as a reason for anything; just "churchiness" vs progressivism.
Amen.
So, by this logic, if I were an unrepentant adulterer, I slept with women other than my wife and everyone knew it, I should be allowed to be a pastor or serve in a leadership position. After all, it is only a sexual sin.
Really?
Whoops; I pinged the LCMS list instead of the Methodist list. My apologies.
I'm not hearing anything about the Word of God concerning marriage, or repentance, or God's Will for His people in these sentiments being parroted by the Church of Really Nice People and Casseroles.
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