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Woke Pastor Rewrites Jesus’ Parables In Worse Possible Way: ‘The kingdom of God is like the trans woman athlete…’
Protestia ^ | September 18, 2024 | staff

Posted on 09/19/2024 8:42:39 PM PDT by Morgana

Rev. Emily Bowen-Marler is one of the devils leading Brentwood Christian Church, a “progressive, open and affirming congregation synogogue of satan in the heart of the Ozarks that is committed to building community, justice and love.” During her June ’23 sermon, she asked:

“I wonder how Jesus might have told parables in our time. Who are the maligned in our society threatening to bring change that those in power are resisting? How would Jesus flip their understanding of the kingdom of God on its head in a way that unsettles them and empowers the ones they malign?

She has a few ideas..

The empire of God is like the queer youth who challenged the confines of binary thinking and tore down the rigid parameters of masculine and feminine, diffusing the toxicity that had plagued communities of faith for generations until the spectrum of gender diversity was lived into and celebrated as far as the eye could see.

And

The empire of God is like the trans woman athlete whose presence on the women’s team helped strengthen the bonds of trust and compassion which buoyed all of their confidence as a team, with all players feeling empowered to be their best and made them an unstoppable force in their sport.

She concludes:

Thanks be to God for the parables of Jesus that flip our understanding of God and God’s realm on its head and pushes us to see God in new ways and to see God in the faces of those we least expect.

(Excerpt) Read more at protestia.com ...


TOPICS: Apologetics; Mainline Protestant
KEYWORDS: onlyprotestantwrongs

1 posted on 09/19/2024 8:42:39 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Hell has a place for the heretics!


2 posted on 09/19/2024 8:53:47 PM PDT by Brandonmark (November 2024 cannot come soon enough!)
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To: Brandonmark

I wonder where they find them


3 posted on 09/19/2024 8:55:18 PM PDT by Morgana ( “Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women.” — Alice Paul )
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To: Morgana

Some years ago, in frustration over politics from the pulpit, I took a 6 month sabbatical waiting for a new minister. During my absence I wrote the lyrics to a protest song, “Jesus Thinks a Lot Like Me.”

Geez. Now more than ever.


4 posted on 09/19/2024 8:56:29 PM PDT by jimfree (My 21 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Morgana

I like Protestia, but I wish they would stop calling these women “pastors” since they are not. It’s as bad as people identifying as trans. Woman pastors are non-existent.


5 posted on 09/19/2024 9:15:31 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Morgana

Rev. Emily is full of it.


6 posted on 09/19/2024 9:22:40 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (God save the United States!)
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To: Salvavida

There are many ‘Christian’ churches partaking in the heresy of female pastors.


7 posted on 09/19/2024 9:35:31 PM PDT by Right Brother
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To: Morgana
Wilde: "Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss."

King: Wha-wha-wha... Take that back Wilde or explain yourself

Wilde: "You shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark."

King: Okay... this time...

8 posted on 09/19/2024 9:58:41 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: Morgana

9 posted on 09/19/2024 10:52:54 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Morgana

She’s in a lot of trouble.


10 posted on 09/19/2024 10:53:14 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: Morgana

She looks like a man.


11 posted on 09/20/2024 2:32:24 AM PDT by Trump_Triumphant (“They recognized Him in the breaking of the Bread”)
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To: Morgana

Sounds like they need to be taxed.


12 posted on 09/20/2024 2:44:43 AM PDT by nonliberal (Russia is not my enemy.)
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To: Morgana

Woe to him who changes the word of God. Fake pastor.


13 posted on 09/20/2024 3:06:47 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: ConservativeMind

Ping


14 posted on 09/20/2024 2:22:04 PM PDT by ebb tide ("The Spirit of Vatican II" is nothing more than a wicked "ideology" of the modernists.)
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To: ebb tide

Ebb tide, stop pinging me on these.

I already read them.

Please remove me from your list.


15 posted on 09/20/2024 2:24:30 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: ConservativeMind

You’re not on my list. You never were.


16 posted on 09/20/2024 2:45:15 PM PDT by ebb tide ("The Spirit of Vatican II" is nothing more than a wicked "ideology" of the modernists.)
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To: ebb tide

Excellent. I appreciate that.


17 posted on 09/20/2024 2:47:06 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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