Posted on 07/28/2012 6:27:04 AM PDT by Olog-hai
It was to be their big day, but a Jackson couple says the church where they were planning to wed turned them away because of their race.
Now, the couple wants answers, and the church's pastor is questioning the mindset of some of members of his congregation who caused the problem in the first place. …
"The church congregation had decided no black could be married at that church, and that if he went on to marry her, then they would vote him out the church," said Charles Wilson.
The Wilsons were trying to get married at the predominantly white First Baptist Church of Crystal Springs (Mississippi)—a church they attend regularly, but are not members of. …
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Apparently, this couple preferred the church they WERE ATTENDING, instead of a 'black' church.
Maybe they want to be Christian, and not Muslim, or 'black liberation theology'.
Maybe they weren't 'racist' blacks.
Although the alleged actions of the 'church members' would tend to make one racist.
The media loves to get one side of the story.
I would bet “the few” still vote democrat. Ms ping
There is a standard for Christian living—it is the Bible— and not the decisions of a private group of people. All people will one day be held accountable before God for everything we think, say and do. The Word of God will be the standard.
True Christians (those who have been born again by the Spirit of God) want to live by the Word of God. As a believer grows in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, a lot of things he formerly believed or thought to be true will be seen for the rubbish it really is and be thrown out by that person. A belief in a superior race, or a belief in an inferior race, is one of those “rubbish” things.
God’s Word says that a person must be born again in order to enter the kingdom of God (John 3). Jesus explains it to Nicodemus, a Jewish man who had a religion. A relationship with Christ will result in a changed, and changing, life.
Jesus said that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and that no man can come to the Father except through Him.
Indeed, but THAT will never be part of the story. I smell a RAT in this one regardless.
Isn't the new President of the Southern Baptist Conference a black man?
Isn't the new President of the Southern Baptist Convention a black man?
I think the 'him' refers to the Pastor, NOT the couple who wanted to get married.
Thank you. I wondered if it was just me, and it was.
That is how they sell laundry detergent.
Which makes your point “All people will one day be held accountable before God for everything we think, say and do. The Word of God will be the standard.” Absolutely rock solid. People are flawed to the core and often we see it most clearly within a church.
Where I was going is “Keep the government out of it”. Period. Right or wrong the people involved should be able to choose in “their” church what is acceptable for them to tolerate so long as it is within the law.
I don't agree at all with all of the church fracturing because as your point here is spot on “True Christians (those who have been born again by the Spirit of God) want to live by the Word of God. As a believer grows in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, a lot of things he formerly believed or thought to be true will be seen for the rubbish it really is and be thrown out by that person. A belief in a superior race, or a belief in an inferior race, is one of those “rubbish” things”.
God will judge whether they made the right decision (not government) is all I'm trying to say and I'd say I've done a poor job of it.
I am a KJV born again father of 5 with a loving faithful wife of the same beleifs. It breaks our heart to watch all of our Church's fracture around us.
“Where I was going is “Keep the government out of it”. Period. Right or wrong the people involved should be able to choose in “their” church what is acceptable for them to tolerate so long as it is within the law.”
Thanks for clarifying...
The Church, the body of Jesus Christ, has a great responsibility that we have failed in, and that is to call sin sin and to stand up against the sin which is rampant in our society, and shamefully, in our own local churches. We are told to do so in the epistles of the New Testament, in 1 Corinthians for example. And Jesus also did it.
God has already judged whether they made the right decision—it’s in His Word, the Bible. They made the wrong decision, and the pastor could have stood up to them and told them that racism is not of God. God created all men (includes women) from one and put them in their boundaries and in their times that they might know Jesus Christ. At the last judgment (for unbelievers) it is the same Word that will judge them.
Praise God for the forgiveness of our sins that we have in Jesus Christ! And praise Him for the fact that all who
trust in Christ have been raised up with Him to walk in newness of life in the power of His Spirit, right here on earth. May we study His Word so we can know the truth and tell others, as His Spirit enables and guides us. Time is very short!
Amen Brother.
“Praise God for the forgiveness of our sins that we have in Jesus Christ! And praise Him for the fact that all who
trust in Christ have been raised up with Him to walk in newness of life in the power of His Spirit, right here on earth. May we study His Word so we can know the truth and tell others, as His Spirit enables and guides us. Time is very short!”
“Yep, a leftist set-up for sure....because, as we all know there is absolutely no racism in Jackson.”
Unfortunately, there is racism in Jackson.
Jackson is predominately black.
“I would bet “the few” still vote democrat.”
Yep...
“Isn’t the new President of the Southern Baptist Conference a black man?”
Yes, ma’am, he certainly is!
BUMP your comments dixiechick2000, including the one below this one & WKB’s.
I get a good laugh from the “there is no white racism” posts.
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