Help needed to find a new church

Myself | November 15, 2004 | Myself

[Dems_R_Losers]

OK, I have had it with the ECUSA. It was the church that brought me to Christ, but now I believe it has abandoned Christ. I have moved away from my original parish anyway.

I do not wish to be a Catholic or Orthodox Christian. I need to find a church that allows the involvement of women in the priesthood and deaconate, but not practicing homosexuals. One that frowns on divorce and supports the pro-life movement. I like to dance and drink, so Southern Baptist is out. I'm not a pacifist so I cannot be a Quaker. Your advice is appreciated!

[aimhigh]

Try Presbyterian PCA. However, seeking a church that allows the involvement of women in the priesthood is merely jumping from one Bible rejecting church to another.

[stuartcr]

OK

[bonfire]

I could have written this post! Thanks and I am reading the responses.

[Gamecock]

Try Presbyterian PCA

What a splendid idea!

[pachomi33]

Excellent observation. By their fruits you know them.

[PetroniusMaximus]

***I need to find a church that allows the involvement of women in the priesthood ***

If you choose a denomination like that, give yourself a decade and you'll be right back in the same position your in now.

[scottro]

a Church is not a building or an organization that pushes forward an agenda to build a Kingdom based upon Leadership and Laity. The Church will always be the bride of Christ and those who have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ the Son of God , belong to him. If your looking for fellowship and don't want all of the religious crap, ask God to bring people into your life , that want to get real and personal with you. People, who will go to bat for you and not condemn you but only build you up in the body. Stay away from religiousness because it teaches a mixed message. A message that says, if I do good then I will be saved. You ever wonder why Jesus said that sinners would be welcomed into the Kingdom before those who are self righteous? Sinners know that they need a savior, but the self righteous are their own. Trust the Holy Spirit to guide you and spend time in God's word. Remember in Christ there is no sin,so cling to Him alone.Claim the blood on your life.</p>

[BibChr]

I need to find a church that allows the involvement of women in the priesthood and deaconate, but not practicing homosexuals.

So, one that abandons the clear teaching of the Word of God in one unpopular respect, but holds to it in another?

Why not just stay where you are? They'll let you pick and choose which of God's words you like,a nd which you don't.

Dan
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[RightOnline]

You need a good hands-raisin', tongues-speakin' evangelical church. Trust me. Best thing I ever did was begin attending evangelical churches. A personal relationship with Christ is emphasized.....and these churches are ALIVE, my friend.

[onedoug]

Fellowship is nice, and organizationally, is good for the country.

[bonny011765]

Consider that Christ set up the Church as his Bride; He is the Bridegroom. An all male priesthood is not anything to do with the culture, nor with feminism. Reprogram yourself into a more spiritual way of thinking. Learn to lean on the male priesthood for worship; take your ministry talents to the Body of Christ as beloved Brothers and Sisters.

Seriously, this is not about careers and glass ceilings, and the male vs female war that diablos has set up. Come to the Anglican Catholic Church. It is lovely.

[Conservative til I die]

Boy, it's like a buffet line, isn't it? You should really examine what you want out of a religion.

[Flying Circus]

Dear God,
I want everything to work according to my will, not yours.
Thanks,
Dems_R_Losers

[tessalu]

I really do not think that you want a church, so forget it.

[moog]

Foursquare or Assembly of God. They are both fairly conservative bible wise except they allow women ministers. My friend in school belonged to the foursquare church. We used to joke good naturedly that you could get excommunicated for doing fisties or double bounces.

[kittymyrib]

The minute a woman is ordained as a pastor in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, it will split wide open. Jesus chose twelve men to lead His church. The Scriptures say that women should not be in a position of authority over men in the church and should not preach. If women are allowed into the pulpit, it tells you that the church is no longer following the Bible, and then it doesn't matter if you belong to it or not. On Judgement Day, Jesus will be hearing multitudes of these cafeteria "Christians" saying, "Lord! Lord!" but He will say, "I never knew you." Only those who follow the Word of God faithfully, without all the modern encroachments of a sinful society, are Jesus's disciples. (John 8:31)

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

Calm down. I didn't say I approved of women being ordained, just that it hasn't happened yet in the LCMS. I agree it would split the church wide open, and yet that is the direction things are trending toward. The LCMS seems to be a couple of decades behind the ELCA as far as these cultural trends go, so I think it is just a matter of time.

I will try to do everything in my power to resist the slide off the deep end, and train my children to do the same, but I think it is coming nevertheless. We'll have to cross that bridge when we come to it. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof"

[dsc]

" It is my considered opinion that ordination of female priests opened the door to the wholesale takeover of ECUSA by radical homosexuals, New Agers, & just plain old heretics bent on destroying the church."

Bingo, bango, on target with high-order detonation.