Posted on 06/05/2022 3:53:02 PM PDT by T Ruth
Last year, the United Methodist Church accepted Isaac Simmons, who regularly preaches dressed as a drag queen under the name Ms. Penny Cost, as a candidate for ordination. Since that time, Simmons, who serves as an associate pastor at Hope United Methodist Church in Bloomington, Illinois, has challenged basic theological concepts, projecting a worldview where divinity rests not in God but in queerness.
In a church preparing to split over LGBTQ issues, the drag queen pastor, who embraces queer theology while barely attempting to plaster on the basic tenets of Christian theology, has become a lightning rod. Conservatives argue that Simmons’ role as a celebrated figure among progressive Methodists proves the church has become so radically liberal as to forswear Christ. Progressives promote Simmons and invite him to preach in drag as a way to challenge the conservative position on sexuality that the denomination officially still takes.
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Simmons has published a new video of himself performing slam poetry in what may be his most provocative repudiation of traditional Christianity and embrace of queer spirituality.
“God is nothing,” the self-described “dragavangelist” repeats throughout the poem, adding, “the Bible is nothing” and “religion is nothing.” In the end, he concludes God and the Bible are nothing “unless we wield it into something.”
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He speaks of God not as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but rather as the source of queerness, describing him as “nothing but a drag queen with a microphone of biblical f***ing proportions,” “nothing, but if she were, she would be ‘yes, queen’-ing her way down the runways of Paris and Montreal,” and “nothing, but if she were, she would be a seamstress of divide couture, weaving together string theory and self portraits to form the fiercest gowns of queer existence.”
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I expect exactly what we’ve seen.
He'd have a conniption fit if he saw today's methodist "church".
Therefore:
Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!
* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.
The August 19 date refers solely to the adoption of the gaysbian agenda, NOT to the “Full Communion” agreement.
Veni, Sanctae Spiritus!
Ping.
The United Methodist Church has become a church of Satan.
God despises these homosexuals; they have no place in God’s family. Now Jesus might preace love of all mankind, this is pushing the Love of God beyond reason, in the Biblical sense. God only hates a pedifile worse than a gay, and murders, adulters, liars, thieves are behind. The Gay pedifile is just beyond the Homosexual themselves. This is proof this person is no different the Catholic Priests who infest the Churches.
They should just run over them instead of running over to them.
That’s not a church - it’s a freak show 🤪
That didn’t take long.
An Anti-Catholic bigot response to a Methodist post.
“The time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.” (2 Timothy 4:3-4)
Romans 1:22
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
Matthew 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
But UMC is refusing to allow a conference vote on the splitting from the main denomination (they have postponed the vote until 2024 because of the excuse of covid and are suppressing the (traditionalist) African delegations from being able to attend). The heretics are a taking over the vast properties and treasuries by running-off the good people. Time to have serious law suites.
Our local Methodist church will be leaving the UMC soon. They are just deciding which alternate denomination they’re going to join with. I’d go with the Wesleyans, if it were up to me; they’re pretty conservative. There’s also the Global Methodist Church, which is similar to the umc, except not allowing same sex marriage or homosexual ordination.
Churches have become temples for sinners and hypocrites.
You have yourselves to blame.
I do not know the answer to that question.
HST, I have no problem with the ordination of women pastors, as long as they are NOT HOMOSEXUAL!
Where is your reliable and verifiable information which supports your unsupported/unsupportable assertion?
I wager that he hid his EVIL perversions until he got ordained!
“We are nothing unless God uses us. God and the Word have been omnipotent from before the beginning.”
Very good! I had wanted to post awhile ago and thinking that if a regular pastor had said “God is nothing if we don’t act on what we believe” it would make an okay sermon - but that didn’t sound right either! You nailed it on the head.
Even a statement like “God is nothing in your own life if you don’t act on what you believe” is incorrect IMHO. God can always prompt you even if you are ignoring Him. Like Jonah, or Moses.
And many will follow their debauched lifestyles. Because of these false teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/search?q=false+teachers&translation=all
But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/search?q=false+teachers&translation=all
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