Posted on 07/09/2008 4:32:10 AM PDT by johnstown
The Episcopal Church has been at the forefront of baptizing active homosexual lifestyle as God-blessed.
Since 1960, that denomination has decreased in membership by 48%.
The United Methodist Church has been roiled by those adamant on establishing homosexual lifestyles as Christian legitimate. In the fight for one side or another that denomination has decreased in membership by 25%.
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has likewise been embroiled in the tussle. That denomination has decreased in membership by 44%.
The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has also been riddled with in-house fighting over homosexual lifestyles as anti-God or pro-God. That denomination's membership has decreased 74%.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America has permitted the fight to be more open, some in administration arguing homosexual lifestyles as okay with God. That denomination's membership has decreased by 31%.
The United Church of Christ (Congregational) has defended aggressively homosexual activity as totally legitimate in the definition of "Christian." In the last 40 years, that denomination has lost 40% of its original membership.
By contrast, denominations preaching the Bible as divine revelation, openly stating their love for homosexuals but their disdain for homosexual activity, have grown in membership and church attendance.
For instance, the Southern Baptist Convention has increased in membership by 76% according to the National Council of Churches statistics for 2007.
Read James L. Clark's "The Church Homosexual Problem" at http://www.postchronicle.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=75&num=153523
You seem determined not to get the biblical message of saving grace for the repentant individual.
True
A pretty neat trick. "We love you...now get the hell away from me."
I see you live up to your handle.
Sound advice
Your counsel of course is biblically ‘right on.’
Thanks.
You better believev it! Thanks.
Yes. Jesus gave us the right to analyze the fruit on another’s tree—good or bad.
Sound analysis. Thanks.
Thank you particularly for this: “Speak the truth in love. Eph 4:15”
And Christ said “I am the Way, the TRUTH and the Life.”
Well of course they loose numbers. They aren’t having kids and so must rely solely on converts to keep the thing going.
The more a worldly church welcomes the worldly, the more the worldly conclude they don’t need the church.
When a worldly church preaches that all sin is okay, why should an okay-ongoing-sinner get up to go church? Sleep in makes sense.
Good one!
Errr. Given the thread title are you sure that is the choice of words you meant to use ? LOL.
And the devil’s beat goes on and on. . .slide down and down and down some more. . .and we know where the final “down” ends up.
Well, this entire problem began with the post-1930 legitimization in various Christian communities of such practices as contraception and divorce.
Once one starts unraveling the thread. . .
Yes.
There are latent homosexuals who remain chaste just as there are unmamrried heterosexuals who remain chaste for they believe that sex is to be kept within marriage.
Your links in #36 are from USA Today and National Public Radio, both of which are known for their left-wing wish reporting. They’re America’s versions of Reuters.
“What is happening now is that even the moderates in the mainline churches are becoming fed up.”
...yep, absolutely right...and it’s getting worse.
“History may not exactly repeat itself, but you can hear similar tunes.”
...I think so....homosexuality is the new slavery....next up on the back burner will be the mother-of-all-issues:
Will the Christendom resist the global ambitions of Islam?
“Why 1960? That wasn’t even on the radar then.”
1960 is a pretty good starting point...the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins were then...the birth of the Civil Rights era....and thus began the Presbyterian Church’s interest in opression and victimization...that interest has now become an obsession...they see it everywhere.
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