To: Crackingham
How can you be a member of a religious organization and simultaneously act regularly and openly in outright defiance of its principles? No church worth the name would accept such a person.
2 posted on
10/28/2005 2:13:59 PM PDT by
thoughtomator
(Ninety-nine Republican Arlen Specters aren’t worth one Democratic Zell Miller)
To: thoughtomator
"How can you be a member of a religious organization and simultaneously act regularly and openly in outright defiance of its principles? No church worth the name would accept such a person."I don't know. Are there any fat people at your church who are regularly committing the sin of gluttony or sloth?
9 posted on
10/28/2005 2:30:05 PM PDT by
muir_redwoods
(Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
To: thoughtomator
I believe that is just what the pastor is saying. Another case of doing what is right gets you in trouble. Makes no sense to me!!!!!!
10 posted on
10/28/2005 2:31:38 PM PDT by
Coldwater Creek
("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
To: thoughtomator
How can you be a member of a religious organization and simultaneously act regularly and openly in outright defiance of its principles? How could a religious organization more openly defy the example of its founder?
18 posted on
10/28/2005 2:41:06 PM PDT by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: thoughtomator
That is precisely the reason Rev. Johnson declined to admit the man to membership. The man in question refused to renounce his homosexual [sinful] behavior.
47 posted on
10/28/2005 3:19:38 PM PDT by
Prov3456
To: thoughtomator
"How can you be a member of a religious organization and simultaneously act regularly and openly in outright defiance of its principles? No church worth the name would accept such a person."
That's why the pastor was removed by an overwhelming vote of his fellow VA Methodist ministers. The pastor's outright defiance cost him his job.
To: thoughtomator
How can you be a member of a religious organization and simultaneously act regularly and openly in outright defiance of its principles?It's done every day...
136 posted on
10/29/2005 4:03:15 AM PDT by
pageonetoo
(You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
To: thoughtomator
"How can you be a member of a religious organization and simultaneously act regularly and openly in outright defiance of its principles? No church worth the name would accept such a person."
I don't understand this at all. The Methodist Church is now telling people they can't be part of a congregation if they're sinners? Excuse me, but I'm a sinner, and I'm a member of the Methodist Church, too. My understanding is that we all "fall short".
I have absolutely no problem with the Church saying that homosexuals should not and can not serve in any official capacity...that should be a rule in any Christian Church.
But, to say that we're not going to minister to sinners...?
139 posted on
10/29/2005 4:10:12 AM PDT by
RavenATB
(Patton was right...)
Everyone sins but if a person is living in sin, and is making no effort to change that, I see no reason why they should be allowed to poison the rest of the flock. Much like I wouldn't want an unrepentant and active serial murder in my church.
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