..the SBC comes out looking pretty good--there must be something to that idea they embrace of the Bible as the last word on church doctrine...
Is it possible that the Anglicans and Episcopalians don’t CARE if they shrink? Some of these denominations have large endowments from generous bequests from religious widows from a bygone era when the denominations seemed to mean something. But if the congregations shrink, the money can go even farther for salaries and special projects.
Maybe homosexuals are a little hazy on the concept.
“Pro-Homosexual Denominations Lose Numbers”
Yes, but their “moral superiority” to the rest of us makes them they gain so much MORE than can be counted in mere membership numbers.
The question is what were the numbers for each denomination before they decided to reject Scriptural teaching on homosexuality and what are their numbers now?
In the case of the SBC, the reported increase seems arbitrary. The SBC has grown 76% since 1962.
I don't think the ECUSA, UMC, PCUSA, DOC, ELCA or UCC have been teaching these doctrines since 1962.
Especially since the UMC has only existed since 1968, the PCUSA since 1983, and ELCA since 1988.
Episcopalians going down the tubes ping
Not very PC, but it sums it up pretty well...
The lesson here is, when a church loses it’s focus on Christ and the Bible it is headed into the dumpster...
Here’s my morning Barf story!
God commands us to leave Sodom and Gomorrah and not to look back.
A pretty neat trick. "We love you...now get the hell away from me."
I was raised a Methodist, but there’s no way I’d support them today, mainly because they are gun grabbers.
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While we were there, we noticed that few members were wearing a strange looking symbol on they're clothes.
My wife asked one of the ushers what that was about. He said that they were an "open" congregation and that those people were "gay."
Not only does the UMC accept homosexuals, they openly promote it!
Ha Ha.
You might want to recheck the statistics on Southern Baptist Convention.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-06-10-southern-baptists_N.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91414826
Just as the homosexuals succeeded in underming the Catholic Church, so likewise they are doing in other churches by driving people away from Christianity. Their sickness is a disease and their master is the devil.
I think the highest increase in any one year since the 1970’s for Southern Baptists was 12 percent. I have read several stories about declining baptisms (and membership) in recent years.
The 76 percent increase is entirely bogus.
..the SBC comes out looking pretty good--there must be something to that idea they embrace of the Bible as the last word on church doctrine...
Poor logic alert!
Why 1960? That wasn't even on the radar then. Why not choose 1948? 1928? 1876? 1780? Why not? Because 1960 just happened to be about when the Episcopal church peaked in terms of membership. The decline since was due to a number of factors, including a revisionist liturgy and womens' ordination (these two factors led to a tremendous decline and to the possibly unratified "Dennis Canon" in which parish property suddenly became diocesan property), later unqualified women bishops, and then most recently the homosexuals. And though I do not have the numbers, I suspect the decline has been even larger than declared here.
Somebody feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t the entire (ostensible) point of these denominations liberalizing their doctrine on sex and other matters that they wanted to be as welcoming of as large and broad a membership as possible, as against the more traditional, even fundamentalist denominations?
...Oops.