Posted on 12/10/2024 11:07:26 AM PST by Morgana
First United Methodist Church West Lafayette is a progressive Methodist church that “embraces and celebrates the complexities of our faith, our world, and each other.”
Led by Rev. Duane Carlisle, they are a “Reconciling in Christ” church that “welcomes everyone, through all life’s stages, with arms that are open, respectful, and loving. And by everyone, we mean regardless of a person’s sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, race, ability, bank balance, or background.”
During their 2022 Christmas service, the Rev. Carlisle donned his priestly vestments decorated with images of the Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
The church also brought in a Grinch actor who handed out presents based on teachings they had throughout the Advent season, including little recycle bins, as one of the Christmas messages was how Isaiah 35 teaches creation care and the importance of recycling.
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They really lost the meaning of Christmas
We Worship the Creator, not the Creation. Keep Gaia out of the program.
This is why Jesus’ cousin was called ‘John the Baptist’, not ‘John the Methodist’.............
Jesus purposely hides the word from people who don't have a heart set on God. They are the blind leading the blind who eventually fall into a pit.
Funny!
Ironically, the John Wesley who started the Methodists was a major player in our culture's holiness movement within the Great Awakening. The Methodist churches who are breaking away from the hedonist teaching United Methodist conference have done so under considerable legal wrangling over property and other assets. They deserve our kudos.
My Mom became a Methodist when she remarried. She managed to get herself kicked OUT of the Lutheran Church (Missouri Synod) when she divorced my Dad.
They truly ARE this nutty. Seriously, ANYTHING goes with these people. Luckily the last time I’ll have to be exposed to their nonsense is at her funeral. And THAT is going to be a very hard day in very many ways.
Well said.
They’re a fake church.
it is true... God does at times send a strong delusion that the wicked will believe a lie, so that they might be damned who reject and will not receive the love of the truth.
Lord deliver us from evil.
“They went out from among us, but they were not of us. For, if they had been of us, certainly they would have remained with us. But in this way, it is made manifest that none of them are of us”
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