Posted on 05/02/2021 8:07:04 AM PDT by massmike
The Episcopal Church has abandoned God and their parishioners. They care only about fighting for the property. Dead church walking.
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Happened in the Catholic church too, NY. One of the diocese (Brooklyn I think), Bishop Mizzolo (?), had the same problem.
He won the case.
Bishop Humphreys helped him I believe. Ten years ago if you want to look it up.
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Leni
In Canada, it didn’t matter. The courts awarded the church properties to the woke Anglican bureaucracy, even in cases where the buildings were built by the congregation. The only exception was a church in Ottawa that was so old that it existed before the creating of the Anglican Diocese.
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I could easily become Anglican or Episcopalian, if I could find a church nearby which believed like the group that won. What once was a Godly and Scriptural denomination has, for the most part, been taken over by outrageous, licentious liberals. And since there is only one Scripture that disallows women teaching in church, I’m ambivalent about women pastors. Our current pastors, in my church, are husband and wife, and the wife is a much better preacher than her husband, though she is submissive to her husband’s authority.
I can remember when three of us jarheads were on liberty and became closely acquainted with a lay leader...
She wasn't an Episcopal... We suppressed out bitter disappointment...
They’ve already agreed to a split. The conservative group has already begun the transition process, though everything will not be legalized until the next UMC General Conference, in 2022. The only problem I have with the conservative group is the name they have chosen, Global Methodist Church. They named it that, because without the African, Asian and Philippine church, the liberal church would have resoundingly won the day, but the new name sounds too much like political globalism to me, which I am against.
Is there a list somewhere of which direction local congregations are going?
Men are to be the top ministerial leader. Men should minister to men, women and children and women can to women and children.
God expects men to step up and be the leaders in the church, but women can definitely assist.
Men everywhere shun responsibility they are required to take.
In the case of the Fort Worth diocese, it was an entire diocese that voted two to one to leave, not just a single or couple of churches that dissented.
One reason why the value is so high is because it also includes two private religious school buildings.
In the Fort Worth area, conservative. Nationally, liberal.
For Methodists or Episcopalian? The Global Methodist Church has lots on the web. About the Episcopalian, I don’t know.
I wonder which Book of Common Prayer the conservative group is going with? The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy, The Scottish Episcopal Church, 1912, is beautiful and Scriptural. I sometimes pray from it. I’ve seen nothing in it that is not Scriptural. Of course, you have to switch out the prayers for the King and Parliament for our form of government, but other than that, it’s great. It’s free on line. I’m Pentecostal, and I enjoy it.
From the website of one of the local conservative Episcopalian churches: Book of Common Prayer
As to the version, I think this answers your question:
Daily Office & Book of Common Prayer (BCP 1928)
CommonPrayer.org is an independent, private ministry which was founded to assist those who use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (BCP) for their daily devotions by providing the Order for Morning and Evening Prayer with the appropriate psalms, scripture readings and collects incorporated into the text, eliminating the need to flip pages and alternate between a BCP and Bible. Other features related to daily prayer, the liturgical year, and reference materials have been developed and added over time.
Thanks.
The former. I’m not seeing my yet about local churches.
I’m interested from the standpoint of real estate I might be purchasing. Having a local congregation that signs up with the GMC would seem to be a positive indicator about the area for me.
They are still going to ordain women .pastors, so they might as well save themselves the trouble of leaving. It's just a matter of time before they will be back where they started in a heretic swamp.
Read their Discipline; it’s very conservative. I belong to one of the most conservative and fundamentalist denominations in the country, and they allow women pastors. However, the Overseer (equivalent to a bishop), must be male.
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