They REPLACED biblical teaching with the latest socialist and PC crap. Even back then.
I heard pro-gay sermons, I heard anti-gun sermons, I heard sermons that equated people with AIDS to saints, I heard we need to raise taxes sermons, I heard that the miracles in the Bible were probably not miracles, etc.
Nothing was BASED on the Bible. I would go home frustrated and mad. Soon, i started giving less and less on the offering plate.
Then I left and eventually so did most of the congregation.
The Episcopal Church in my town does have the prettiest stone church - right by a lake. I think that is ALL it has now.
BTW - I joined a Bible based Baptist church. It grows and grows every year. They have had to move/build three times in the last 10 years - to a BIGGER church.
I belong to an Episcopal Church in CT. It’s just the opposite. They sermons are invariably based on the day’s readings. No politics has ever been mentioned by any of the four rotating ministers. I feel pretty good going there. The church is mostly made up of Catholics who go there to get away from the Catholic Church’s weekly begging for money and animosity towards its own parishioners.
And eventually paganism. Oh wait, that is already occurring.
Lots of prayer over this decision. The Holy Spirit impressed upon me to take my family and flee. We did.
In the last days at this parish, I wrote the bishop a letter expressing my disappointment in his leadership of the diocese. Bishop Wimberly time and again promised the diocese of Texas would remain conservative. He misled the folks.
My last words to Wimberly was that the Episcopal church was decaying from within. He wrote back categorically denying this was the case.
A decade later, The Episcopal diocese of Texas voted to condone homosexual relationships within the church.
I am a member of the Anglican Church in America. There is a growing conservative Anglican movement within the United States.
I know exactly what you mean. Liberal church services are like going to a DNC convention (diversity racist anti-white screeds, and all) speech. Sick and sad.
These ‘churches’ only survived in communist nations because the State had the power to dictate and enforce the communist party line. As the liberal church progress here, they are becoming communism’s atheist/humanist party meetings.