Entropy gets us all in the end. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOrEvildfLs&index=27&list=RDGKeP2LQDsAw
The UCC was already going wobbly when I was in high school in the early Seventies. If not for the fact that they still were affiliated with a number of high power colleges, universities and prep schools, I think they would have gone downhill much faster.
You are correct. “ United Church of Christ... The 60-year-old denomination...” is very un-Biblical. I had a superior at work one year who belonged to United Church of Christ and he just wanted to dominate every religious conversation. I learned the UCC is infiltrated by thieves like the Russian Orthodox. How to remove the thieves? Return to the sources in the Bible.
What’s fun to watch about these declining churches is what members propose to do about it. It’s often along the lines of “If we showed we were truly committed to social justice and had real outreach efforts to minorities, the young people and minorities would flock to us!”
In short, double down on what’s not working now.
At a Congregationalist (United Church of Christ) church in a deeply conservative area not far from, here, the parishioners were furious. Many had been members long before the denomination went radical. So they kept the older hymnals along with the "Black Hymnals."
Theological liberalism is just another way of saying “trendy secularism”. Such churches abandon their faith, then question their doctrine to the point where they have none.
Eventually they realize that pretending to be a religion is just a waste of time.
The UCC was one of the key religious members of the Hanoi Lobby during the war, along with the Marxist-dominated Boards of the United Methodist Church and the United Presbyterian Church.
They also supported the Black Panther Party and lots of Marxist united fronts, among other anti-American activities.
So sad that the most gay-friendly denomination is going broke. You’d think that all those wealthy gays would be pouring money into their church.
Oh wait. All they got was a bunch of gay pastors and the pews emptied.
Now their members can come home to The church that Christ founded...Catholicism
Remember the racist/treasonous “Trinity” UCC was the spiritual home of The Won for two decades.
This guy use to pastor a UCC church where I live. He was as far out there as you can get. The Power Team (Christian strongman act) did anti-drug assemblies at the local schools. He wrote a letter to the paper complaining because they were also doing shows at a local church and presenting the Gospel. It wasn't enough for his church to never present the Gospel, he didn't want kids exposed to it anywhere. It was pretty obvious who's team he was really on.
Just write Ichabod on the doors of those churches and be done with it.