Posted on 02/28/2019 5:47:05 AM PST by Gamecock
Not into positions of leadership when they are proud of being gay.
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. “Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
(NIV, Matthew 18:6-7)
The downhill spiral starts when you allow women to be pastors.
I'm soon to be 66 a month from now, but this is a ludicrous claim.
William needs to take a midol. Follow scripture and serve the Lord or serve the world you can’t serve both.
Pretty much. When you have to turn the Bible over so you don’t have to read part of it, you are in trouble.
PCUSA didn’t split over women’s ordination back in the day. They split after the denomination said “You have to agree with this”.
I could have just as easily been a Presbyterian, or Lutheran, or First Christian... or, even a member of any number of non-denominational churches. My spiritual relationship is with Jesus, not with any Methodist bishop.
That said, there are things my church could do that would move me to STOP attending: Sanctioning gay marriage is one. Two people of the same sex living together is NOT "marriage". The government can sanction it, if they want, for secular reasons... but, it's not a marriage that is sanctioned by God.
When we allowed liberals to force this issue on the general public, without any distinction in the name; ie, "Marriage" vs "Union", we created a HUGE problem for churches across the country. I don't know where this is all headed. I'm not sure I really care. I can find churches near me that preach the gospel. And, they don't have bloated governances that do nothing but waste money and create stress.
...Not into positions of leadership when they are proud of being gay.
I understand
All of us sin, this is merely true
But Pride in sin is a far greater error
And to teach that “Pride” is horrific
Is it Friday yet?
It didn’t work.
That's because they prayed for the wrong things.
Pray for Truth, righteousness, and to follow God's will.
Traditional Plan, which reaffirms the BIBLICAL prohibitions against same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy, was approved.
There. Fixed it.
The history of the Methodist Church is that they often split over controversy. The churches that adhere to the Bible thrive and the others die off.
I would assume that LGBT’s are like anyone else who may be seeking a spiritual community....finding one that welcomes them. That does not mean that all possibilities for finding such a community requires that they be welcoming to all LGBT’s.
Start your own LGBQTXYYZZV church.
The downhill spiral starts when you ask the question Did God really say...?
“Maybe the church doesn’t bend its beliefs to suit pc agendas.”
They are already hugely anti-gun so might as well go all the way and get all fruited up.
‘’We’ve lost 30% of our membership’
Including me. This guy doesn’t realize that the 30% left because of pastors/ministers/bishops like him. If Methodist leaders can’t follow the Bible without turning it’s words upside down, there is no point in attending. I left the Methodist Church a week after 9/11. My pastor blamed the terrorist attack on ‘world hunger’ and said from the pulpit ‘we must redistribute the wealth so that everyone has enough’. Buh-bye, Socialist Church.
I’ve got news from the author. The homosexual marriage and LBGTQ...ABCDEFG, Pro Abortion crowd were never going to be the savior of the church. They don’t go to church in large numbers and indeed mock Christians at every opportunity. So, by rejecting the actual teachings of Christ and embracing left-wing pop culture, the UMC has alienated those who would actually join the church, without actually gaining the millennial hipster / everything goes / if it feels good do it crowd to replace them. The goal of the radical left is to destroy the church not “save it”. They will continue to apply pressure until the bible has been replaced with the little red book of progressive ideology and when that finally happens, they will still sit home on Sunday mornings. They won’t fill the pews or the offering plate and they will celebrate when the last church closes it’s doors for the last time.
And even if, the UMC could replace those old bible believing Christians with twice as many new progressives that reject everything that the Church and the Bible have taught for over 2000 years, “what good does it profit a (church) to gain the world and forfeit its soul?
Violent SOB, isn’t he?
Scripture supersedes political correctness.
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