Posted on 01/19/2023 6:16:23 PM PST by marshmallow
For the first time, under historic plans outlined today, same-sex couples will be able to come to church to give thanks for their civil marriage or civil partnership and receive God’s blessing.
The Bishops of the Church of England will be issuing an apology later this week to LGBTQI+ people for the “rejection, exclusion and hostility” they have faced in churches and the impact this has had on their lives.
And they will urge all congregations in their care to welcome same-sex couples “unreservedly and joyfully” as they reaffirm their commitment to a “radical new Christian inclusion founded in scripture, in reason, in tradition, in theology and the Christian faith as the Church of England has received it – based on good, healthy, flourishing relationships, and in a proper 21st Century understanding of being human and of being sexual”.
The proposals, which follow a six-year period of listening, learning and discernment known as Living in Love and Faith, will be outlined in a report to the Church’s General Synod, which meets in London next month.
It will offer the fullest possible pastoral provision without changing the Church’s doctrine of Holy Matrimony for same-sex couples through a range of draft prayers, known as Prayers of Love and Faith, which could be used voluntarily in churches for couples who have marked a significant stage of their relationship such as a civil marriage or civil partnership.
There will be a commitment to produce new pastoral guidance in relation to the discernment of vocation, replacing the 1991 statement “Issues in Human Sexuality”, to which all clergy currently are asked to assent.
(Excerpt) Read more at churchofengland.org ...
More evidence of people being turned over to depraved minds.
Look up the history of Henry VIII and why the “Church” of England exists. It was created for his own pleasure. The logical consequence of his motives are here...
Who appointed pro-Sodomite bishops as the arbitrators of who receives God's blessing?
And what Bible verses pertaining to such relationships could they read to support such a ceremony?
I know how John Wesley would have reacted to this Abomination!
They aren’t saying which “god” they are blessing by.
That should drive out the Christians for once and for all.
Sick, but I thought the Church of England was not approving gay marriage.
As depraved as he was, Henry VIII would not have approved this heresy.
So, God has changed His mind and has become woke?
Of course its /s
“The marriage between one man and one woman is the Foundation of Western Civilization.” From “Why Judaism (Then Christianity) Rejected Homosexuality” by Dennis Prager
This is what you get when you let women and gays run your church.
Writing their own obituary.
At least they are not allowing “gay marriage” in churches. However, they like to compromise: “Catholic and Protestant”, etc.
that is blasphemy and/or sacrilegious- God never added a P.S to his word declaring that he had since had a change of mind and that now sodomy was ok-
How long oh Lord will you allow this mockery to go on?
Hmmm, leats see, asking God to bless what He has identified as an abomination before Him. Magic Thinking run amok
It stops short of “marriage”, so it won’t be enough. Also see my tagline.
“You may be hot or you maybe cold; but if you are lukewarm I will spit you out.”
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