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To: Olog-hai

I’m sure there is much more to the story. What I don’t know.

But the couple did say that they were NOT members of the church even though they do attend services there.


6 posted on 07/28/2012 6:38:25 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: The Working Man
Doesn't appear that there was anything other than a few influential members objected because the couple was Black. Pure racism!

When I see stories that I question, I always go to a local news source. In the case of George Zimmerman, I found video of the night Trayvon the punk was killed and the next day interview of the eye witness from the apartment right where it happened. The reporter interviewed the guy on video. I was like the only person in the country who found this video report clearing Zimmerman on the DAY AFTER the shooting.

LOCAL news. http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20120728/NEWS/207280337/Church-closes-door-black-couple-denies-wedding?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Home

Read the article and watch video of the couple.

39 posted on 07/28/2012 8:09:33 AM PDT by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: The Working Man

“I’m sure there is much more to the story. What I don’t know.”


Strange, most pastors I know will not perform a marriage unless the couple goes through counseling beforehand. The reason for the counseling is to determine if the couple are believers. They take seriously that no one be unequally yoked to a nonbeliever.

I know of a couple who were married in my church, but not by the pastor, since he refused to marry an unbeliever to a believer. His stance was and is that a Christian marriage ceremony is a worship service asking the Lord to bless a union. A couple can be married by a notary, justice of the peace, or any of many options, but to ask for the Lord’s blessing to such a union is not biblical.

In this case I’m sure that the pastor confirmed that both the bride and groom are Christians, especially since he married them in another church.

The problem here is specifically that members who have no problem with tithes and offering going to foreign missions for Blacks and other people of color, can’t get the plank out of their own eye, and realize that in heaven there will not be walls dividing black from white, red from yellow, or Baptist, from any other denomination. More clearly, the Body of Christ here on earth should reflect that which is in heaven.


47 posted on 07/28/2012 8:35:31 AM PDT by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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