Posted on 05/08/2014 8:00:19 AM PDT by fwdude
A lesbian preacher in the United Methodist Church is being given a free ride.
After a complaint was filed against Sara Thompson Tweedy of New York, the matter was considered and the case dismissed. There will be no prosecution.
Rob Renfroe of Good News, an orthodox renewal United Methodist group, says there's no mistake about Thompson's lifestyle.
"She's very up front that she that is married to another woman " tells OneNewsNow.
Renfroe describes her as a "proud, active, self-avowed lesbian."
(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...
A Fundamentalist cartoon portraying Modernism as the descent from Christianity to atheism, first published in 1922 and then used in Seven Questions in Dispute by William Jennings Bryan.
In a brief historical analysis, Grudem demonstrates that denominations move through a predictable sequence of theological liberalism. First, biblical inerrancy is abandoned. Then, in turn, the denomination endorses the ordination of women, rejects biblical teaching on male leadership in marriage, sidelines pastors who are opposed to the ordination of women, approves homosexual conduct as morally valid in at least some cases, ordains homosexuals, and elects homosexuals to high leadership positions in the denomination." --- Albert Mohler Jr., 9th president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY (1993 current).
Frightening not only from a salvation and morals perspective.
You want to view a society devoid of Judaeo-Christian morality?
Look at Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc. They produce nothing but human misery.
2 dykes on....... bikes
I'm coming to the conclusion that churches have no business in outreach - they are the incubator for new and growing Christians to fellowship together and sharpen each other as they worship and hear the Word of God. It falls on these maturing Christians to go out into the lost and dying world with the Good News as they live among and interact with unbelievers. As people respond, they are brought into the fellowship as appropriate.
If any here disagree, please show me from Scripture where the Church as an official organization is tasked with reaching the world.
Good to see your discussions on this thread. I share your outlook on the reunification of Christianity. Plenty of sheep and goats can be found in all of the denominations.
^^ Both your posts!! Have a blessed day!
there are a number of Methodist churches around which are not members of the UMC.
I tried very hard to "save" a Methodist church at which I was a trustee. I got the treatment reserved for the Tea Party by the IRS, including nearly being run off the road in a vehicle, having a list of sins mailed to me by the pastor with mine underlined, having all my projects taken down or discontinued, etc etc. I was kind and fact-based in my discussions with people. They were unkind and defamatory towards me and my reputation because I respectfully disagreed that the church should bless gay unions and promote gays being pastors, and wanted the matter to be discussed, not dictated. The gossip was continued on to my subsequent pastors in another state after I moved. Eventually, I simply had to leave, after the lying, closeted pastor in my last UMC church told my teenager that it is ok to have sex outside marriage. I could not raise children in churches within a Conference with no appropriate sexual boundaries.
Another big schism coming? Or do Methodists even care that much?
re your question of whether to have a Methodist archbishop — in the next town over from me, a very old, historic town, there were once two Methodist churches within twenty yards of each other. One was for the Union, and the other for the Confederacy. So I think if there is to be a Methodist Archbishop, the split should happen at the same time. There are some ideas that are simply incompatible.
By the way, the former Confederate Methodist church is now an office building with a rather imposing front — big columns on an otherwise pretty ordinary building. Kind of metaphoric.
I suggest that the rainbow's current, co-opted symbolism might be a clue.
Must wholeheartedly agree; and I'm a woman.
I see roles for women with a theologically-sound pastoral education in counseling or teaching, and even as Board members; but not as the full pastor of a congregation.
Book of Judges
Think:Judge Dredd /sarc
One of them was a woman
Not sure I understand your post; but it you are saying that the Book of Judges should be our guide, that was about a time well before Christ came to set things straight. And to me, it represents all that is still wrong with today’s society: God gave Moses the Commandments so the people would know how to act. But the people demanded kings and judges, because they just couldn’t keep it simple and behave the way God wanted.
Agreed; just none near us.
Why don't they just join the Peace Corps?
They don’t think they’re good enough to be a part of that awesome an organization.
Very good point.
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