> I really can’t improve on that, and since I believe we all in this discussion actually do agree on it, I’ll conclude by saying that I just wish the pastor had read it before spending parish funds contrary to it.
I do agree with that, certainly.
I also suspect that provoking this sort of controversy was *precisely* what the pastor would have had in mind before he/she did this. Stirring up trouble is very much a New Zealand way of making a point.
Stirring up trouble is very much a New Zealand way of making a point.
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As a born and bred New Zealander, I never did see that happen...
New Zealanders always tended to be straight forward...
say what you mean and mean wghat you say...
Worked for us...
Now you were born in China was it ???
Immigrated to Canada...
and then immigrated to New Zealand...
Maybe you brought the habit with you...
Along with that Australian practice of saying “Gidday mate”
I also suspect that provoking this sort of controversy was *precisely* what the pastor would have had in mind
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I think you said up thread that people had left this church and it had died off...
Got liberal, politically correct, same sex practices etc...
No wonder people left with this unGodly stuff going on...
Jesus is God and is Holy, Righteous, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, the Savior, the Word, the Spotless Lamb of God, who commands us to flee the very appearance of evil...
What Christian in their right mind would attend there...
As Christians we are told not to hang out with the unrighteous but to come out from among them...