[RightWinger]

When your denomination abandons the Bible, it's time to find another church.

[Paul_B]

God bless Steven Randall.

Church splits suck, but sometimes the alternative is worse.

May God heal his church.

[niteowl77]

"I think there is a lot of work to be done there pastorally as well as professionally," he said. "It's a conservative congregation, so this does not surprise me. It has been one torn by strife and a lot of conservative feeling over the years."

Just the kind of loving, unbiased response one expects from the swinging, progressive Episcopalian hierarchy.

Conservatism does tear things apart, you know. Contrast that kind of congregation-rending conservatism with the healing, homosexual-affirming love that throbs and pulsates within the new Episcopalian church (with or without anointing oil). No, you can't say enough about that kind of love these days. Sure, they will always have the Bible to fall back on (if worse comes to worse), but I believe that The Captain and Tennille put it so beautifully - and spiritually - when they sang, "Love will keep us together." Amen! The love so radiantly displayed by Vicki Gene Robinson and his/her supporters is the very glue that bonds all loving, forward-looking Episcopalians together as they bravely march into their New World Ecumenicalism. Count on it.

As Brother George Michael said, "You gotta have faith, a-faith, a-faith!"

[JesseHousman]

...the decision to confirm Mr. Robinson's election had been "centered in prayer" and that before voting, bishops had been "anointed" with holy oil as an aid for decision making. "I've never prayed this much in my life," he said. The anointing "was an unbelievably powerful experience."

Their prayers were directed in the wrong direction, and satan was listening.

It seemed as though, instead of being anointed with holy oil, they had gotten oiled with firewater.

[trad_anglican]

Episcopal/Anglican ping

[hardhead]

I'm not Episcopalian but this saddens me deeply. I have my own personal thoughts that satan is weakening the resolve of all Christian churches so that at some point 'the religion of peace' will step in and become the one-world religion. America is being weakened from within to be taken over by the forces of the Underworld (not the underworld). If most Episcopalians and Christians as a body sit back and say nothing, then they will be herded like sheeple and driven into the pit.

[fml]

--The Episcopal Church requires its priests to obey its bishops.--

But those bishops are no longer required to obey the Bible it seems.

[N. Theknow]

Yesterday at the National Cathedral, Washington Bishop John B. Chane told reporters that the decision to confirm Mr. Robinson's election had been "centered in prayer" and that before voting, bishops had been "anointed" with holy oil as an aid for decision making. "I've never prayed this much in my life," he said. The anointing "was an unbelievably powerful experience."

Sounds like the "oil" was K-Y jelly.

[AD from SpringBay]

"I think there is a lot of work to be done there pastorally as well as professionally," he said. "It's a conservative congregation, so this does not surprise me. It has been one torn by strife and a lot of conservative feeling over the years."

Notice what's blamed for the tearing - strife and conservative feeling. What a crock.

[sweetliberty]

"It has been one torn by strife and a lot of conservative feeling"

Conservative feeling???? No, it has been torn by the church redefining God's word to negate what it clearly says and means!

"Washington Bishop John B. Chane told reporters that the decision to confirm Mr. Robinson's election had been "centered in prayer"

Prayer to who?

"It was a relationship that was blessed at some point."

I dare say, not by God.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - ECUSA