"Therefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, says the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."
(2 Cor. 2:17-18)
I don't understand why a lesbian would want to be a minister. If I found myself in that situation, unless I was determined to remain celibate, I would consider myself unworthy to be a minister, not that I have what it takes to be a minister anyway.
They say christ won't come again unless there comes first a great falling away. For any called Christian to claim they
have "discovered " they have a "sexual Orientation" accepted by the World-but not by Scripture they have rejected God.For we have NO greater authority than Scripture.The enemy declared back in 1987 that they would
use our own churches to preach their abomnible lifestyle choice.We have plantd the wind and are reaping the whirlwind.
The congregation has dwindled to a handful of mostly senior citizens. I don't see how they keep the doors open. It doesn't resemble, in the least, the vibrant church with the large membership that grew up in during the nineteen fifties.
Just had a talk with my dad, who's an IL UM Pastor and a member of the Confessing UM Churches. He told me that this could be the end, if the Pennsylvania conference doesn’t defrock her immediately or the Council of Bishops doesn’t act soon this will split the church.
We also talked about the great possibility that we would probably take the conservative member churches of the Apostolic Church with us and form a new UM Apostolic Church, this would include the vast majority of UM Churches and some Apostolic churches in the U.S. (think Texas) and their churches in Korea, Africa, and England.
The Apostolic Church of England is a special case, unlike the UM Church, their hierarchy is quite conservative and their churches in the U.S. tend to be more liberal.
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How convenient. A technicality.