Posted on 06/28/2019 3:37:27 PM PDT by lightman
That’s just it, we all have our roles. It might be 2019, but God doesn’t change.
As a mom, I feel called to create Jell-O as needed. (It’s also good with shredded cabbage, carrots and pineapple in it) ...
By the grace of God I am not called to be a pastor!
The Frankfurt School infiltrated seminaries long ago. Clergy are often among the most heretical - but many seek to hide it from those in the sanctuary pews, like politicians who seek to hide their treachery from those in the voting booths.
I guess the picture tells us just what type of person is running the show there.
Are you saying you would keep going to a church that was run by so?.domites
And no I did not run away and hide, I do my best to inform people that Christ is not in religious institutions he is in the hearts of believers.
875 congregations in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents of the world.
Founded in 1885 by Swedish immigrants, the church is now one of the most rapidly growing and multi-ethnic denominations in North America.[4] Historically Lutheran in theology and background, it is now a broadly evangelical movement.
A pietistic religious awakening had swept through Sweden around the middle of the 19th century. Before leaving their homeland some Swedes met in people’s homes, as they felt the state church was becoming overly powerful. There they conducted private services including hymn singing accompanied by guitars and read scripture from their Bibles, but they’d often hear an ominous authoritative knock at the door from a church official...The state church discouraged the gathering of these believers. It was people from this movement who emigrated to America and formed the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America.
The church is divided into eleven (11) regional conferences[7] – Canada Conference,[8] Central Conference,[9] East Coast Conference (org. 1890),[10] Great Lakes Conference,[11] Midsouth Conference,[12] Midwest Conference,[13] Pacific Northwest Conference,[14] Northwest Conference,[15] Pacific Southwest Conference,[16] Southeast Conference[17] - and its newest conference, the Alaska Conference.[18] The Covenant presence in Alaska dating from 1887 as a foreign mission outpost, but gradually transitioned its status to a home mission, and then finally full conference standing in 2015
Membership is concentrated primarily in three regions of the United States: the Midwest, along the West Coast, and in the Great Plains region.[19] California has the largest number of members, but the highest rates of membership are in Minnesota, Alaska, Kansas, Nebraska, and Washington.[19] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Covenant_Church
Radical Pietism emphasized the need for a "religion of the heart" instead of the head, and was characterized by ethical purity, inward devotion, charity, asceticism, and mysticism. Leadership was empathetic to adherents instead of being strident loyalists to sacramentalism. The Pietistic movement was birthed in Germany through spiritual pioneers who wanted a deeper emotional experience rather than a preset adherence to form (no matter how genuine). They stressed a personal experience of salvation and a continuous openness to new spiritual illumination. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Pietism
But that still does not validate making some "equal to the Apostles" in the light of their credentials, (1Co. 9:1; 2 Co. 6:4-10; 12:12) and who did not pray to created beings in Heaven, among other distinctives of Catholicism (mostly in Romanism) that are not manifest in the only wholly inspired substantive authoritative record of what the NT church believed (including how they understood the OT and gospels), which is Scripture, especially Acts thru Revelation.
Situational exceptions do not constitute what is ordained to be the norm: ARE WOMEN PASTORS BIBLICAL?
Oh, I disagreed with them and told them why. Female pastors are 100% not Biblical, and I would not attend such a church.
It appears that they are being attacked and expelled for holding to Scripture, not for supporting LGBTQ
If evangelicals are not overall far more conservative than any other major religious group, then who do you recomend?
Deborah is found in the OT,not NT.
Is that algebra?
Yes, I know. If you'd been following the thread you'd understand my post.
But apparently not.
It's akin to how Roman Catholics reach back to the OT to justify Mary being the "Queen of Heaven".
Neither are sound exegesis.
Say what??
I have been checking up on the threads.
You apparently aren't good at following the thread.
Do I really need to spell this out for you?
Is it so unusual that after one small denomination throws out a gay-supporting church, to turn our eyes to the world's largest gay religion and ask if it will do the same??
Being anti gay is not bigotry.
It is biblical.
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