soon it will read, "Conservative Episcopalians on the move EN-masse."
Posted on 08/17/2006 1:22:40 PM PDT by Dane
As a counterbalance the Catholic Church and Protestant Evangelical congregations have been gaining memebers.
JMO, Episcopalian Rev. Murdoch sees the future and it is not in following Episcopalian Bishop V. Gene Robinson, despite the liberal MSM's hopes.
Maybe these Episcopalians should be on the move TO Mass rather than IN Mass(achusetts).
A relationship with Gordon-Conwell is a start. After all, that place, a former Catholic minor seminary, produced Scott Hahn, Robert Sungenis (I think), Gerry Matatics, and Steve Wood (all Catholic converts) when it was a Protestant seminary.
Isn't conservative Episcopalian an oxymoron?
That's a lot of members to lose. I hope those are people who haven't lost faith, just moved to a more mainstream church. In Europe the membership has been declining as faith plays a much smaller role in the lives of Europeans. I'd hate to see the US move in that direction.
In the US, Evangelical churches are popping up and their membership growing, while the old "mainline" Protestant churches lose membership.
The new evangelical Churches may not have the grand churches, but they have what counts, people in the pews.
It's a lot worse than you indicate. If you look at average Sunday attendance it's only about 800,000 (2004)
My guess is that it will fall a lot faster now after the General Convention 2006.
In the Houston area a ECUSA church lost over 90% of its members over gays. They moved virtually in mass to the Roman Catholic Church.
Conservative Episcopalian? No such animal. Not when they promote homosexuals to lead their morality.
Note to AP: love != sex
I can tell you unequivocally - no.
The heartbreak of the Episcopal breakup is felt by the conservatives, of which there are many.
soon it will read, "Conservative Episcopalians on the move EN-masse."
er,....
there are a few of us left.
More than a few of us. Unfortunately I think ECUSA is about to find that out the hard way.
You know what Amadeo, I heard all kinds of crap about this subject and very little protesting of the takeover of a pretty nice religion by the extremists.
The homosexuals and those pushing that agenda snowballed any normals.
I hope this church falls for this abomination.
Too bad cause they used to do a lot of fine work.
Or even: en-Mass (sorry, could not refrain).
May God bless and strengthen each and every one.
and very little protesting of the takeover of a pretty nice religion by the extremists
You are absolutely right. It has been one of those 'stand up and be counted' times in life and very, very, very few people step forward to say 'wait one cotton picking minute!' I saw this happen at the church we used to attend. A serious circumstance occurred and many people tut-tutted about it and in private said how upset they were...and then went right back as though nothing was wrong. The 'don't rock the boat because you might offend someone' mentality is throughout our culture now.
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