Posted on 10/23/2005 10:36:47 AM PDT by Crackingham
If you call yourself a Christian pastor than you had best get it through your ehad who you serve and work for.
So who do they work for, the Church hierarchy, or God?
Fyi. Please go to the link and read the whole article.
This needs to be sent to all of our Episcopal friends who may have bought into the Via Media mess.
FYI
The Episcopal Church has been becoming more and more just a "club for sinners" who like sin and want to stick with it, and not saved from it.
Question: If we ( conservatives) are ONLY 10%, as they say, then why are they so concerned..?
it looks like this takeover plan has been thwarted in spades
Apparently they can't tell a bishop from a queen.
"Question: If we ( conservatives) are ONLY 10%, as they say, then why are they so concerned..?
Obviously, their focus groups or real surveys are telling them to worry.
Also that recent lawsuit in the LA area that said the parish members owned the local church not the Diocese has them very scared.
"Unbelieable!"
Amazing, also works.
Miss Marple, who is not an E member, warned us about the homosexuals going after church property and funds shortly after the perverted one was made into an illegal Bishop.
"it looks like this takeover plan has been thwarted in spades,"
The good news about this article (pun intended) is where it was published. It didn't come from the internet or some so called outcast Anglican group. This came from a newspaper.
Now we can forward this article to our friends and allies in our local parish and diocese.
"The Episcopal Church has been becoming more and more just a "club for sinners" who like sin and want to stick with it, and not saved from it."
This started shortly after the Cuban Crisis and the Nam War when the Methodists and others fell in love with Castro and Ho Chi Minh.
It is a problem with many if not most churches today.
Ha! Those people don't want to be caught worshipping in a high school gym and listening to an electronic keyboard! They are too "sensitive" and therefore you OWE them that large building with the stained glass windows and pipe organ; you conservative Episcopalians can go have your antique services down the road at the VFW hall.
Oh, and by the way, don't think that that endowment money your great-grandparents gave will go with you. They want that money to advance their agenda (which is not anything that Christ would recognize, if you ask me). And when their congregations diminish, they will sell off the land and buildings to a developer, so that the money will go for a "good cause."
I am sorry to say I was right about this. I hope this plot has been foiled. That decision out in California about who owns the property was a really important one, as I noted at the time.
Although I still consider myself an Episcopalian (baptised and confirmed), and though my Letters of Transmittal remain active by payment of pledge in my local parish, I have not attended a service in an Episcopal diocese since the summer of 2002. Consequently, if anyone actually POLLS the membership, I cannot be counted.
One wonders what the proportions would be if intentionally "dormant" and "absent" Episcopalians were surveyed.
I remember your astute warning very well, and that is why I copied you on that reply.
Your comments below will be saved and used if needed out here:
"Those people don't want to be caught worshipping in a high school gym and listening to an electronic keyboard! They are too "sensitive" and therefore you OWE them that large building with the stained glass windows and pipe organ; you conservative Episcopalians can go have your antique services down the road at the VFW hall."
"Oh, and by the way, don't think that that endowment money your great-grandparents gave will go with you. They want that money to advance their agenda (which is not anything that Christ would recognize, if you ask me). And when their congregations diminish, they will sell off the land and buildings to a developer, so that the money will go for a "good cause.""
I have told people who have left and are thinking about leaving, that they are doing exactly what these Church Killers have wanted them to do. If you love your church, stay and fight for it.
Thanks as usual.
Dave
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