Posted on 11/30/2004 9:20:41 AM PST by mbarker12474
take it up with the mod
IMO, it's denigrating - besides - its hard enough to search for an article using an actual title, let alone a "wordplay" title
Come out of her.
Seek the old paths.
Turn your heart to the Fathers.
Live the faith of Abraham, not that of Lot's wife.
My wife and I joined a Methodist Church earlier this year. Neither one of us grew up Methodist. We started going to the church because it's close to our house. We like it, but I really wonder about the leadership at the national level.
The area of Virginia that our church is in is very conservative, so I'm fairly confident that most of the members are conservative also. However, I'm not so sure about the pastor. He's done pretty well at staying away from political issues, but I still wonder. He did attend the Air Force Academy and was a fighter pilot, so that gives me hope, but I just have a feeling. One of these days soon I'm going to ask him for his thoughts regarding the leadership and some of their left-wing positions.
Southern conservative churches are the only thing saving methodists right now. The problem is that the liberals want to refer to the man-made book of doctrine or whatever they call it, instead of going to the Bible for their doctrine.
I had a conversation with one of the more conservative members of my church about 6 months ago. She is not happy with some of the positions of the Methodist church either. Her feeling was that most of the other mainline churches are just as bad or worse. So, she has hung in there.
I just don't know if things can be changed. The big debate over homosexuality at the last conference was fairly telling. Some people wanted to break then but supposedly "cooler heads prevailed." I see another try at happening again soon.
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