Posted on 06/29/2015 6:43:31 AM PDT by yetidog
If you attended church, synagouge, temple, mosque etc. did your pastor say anything about recent USSC rulings?
Thank You! I will be listening tonight.
I know that.
I was just making a pun on the term “Outlaw bikers”.
I have a strange little sense of humor, and sometimes people don’t “get” me. Thanks for being a good sport.
Those who know me on FR know where I stand.:-)
Didn’t this Bishop have to deal with some serious pedophile issues from among the former Priesthood there?
I knew that. I was just trying to be annoying.:o)
Ah...just as long as we understand each other! LOL!
Thank you! That’s very nice of you & we’ll add them to our list to visit!
We were referred to this statement from two years ago by the Bishop.
Synodal Affirmation of the Mystery of Marriage
At the Tenth All-American Council of the Orthodox Church in America, held in Miami, Florida in July 1992, the Holy Synod of Bishops issued a document titled, “Synodal Affirmations on Marriage, Family, Sexuality, and the Sanctity of Life.” The Affirmations were issued after a lengthy process of study and discernment with the intention of addressing issues that, even in our time, continue to be a source of debate and division within American society.
The first section of the Affirmations, titled, “The Mystery of Marriage,” reads as follows.
“God creates human beings in His own image and likeness, male and female. He declares human life, with all that He makes, to be ‘very good’ (Genesis 1:27-31).
“God wills that men and women marry, becoming husbands and wives. He commands them to increase and multiply in the procreation of children, being joined into ‘one flesh’ by His divine grace and love. He wills that human beings live within families (Genesis 1:27; 2:21-24; Orthodox Marriage Service).
“The Lord Jesus blessed marriage in which the ‘two become one flesh’ when, by His presence with His mother Mary and His disciples at the marriage in Cana of Galilee, He revealed His messianic glory in His first public miracle, evoking for the first time the faith of His disciples (Genesis 2:24; John 2:1-11)....
“Christ’s apostles repeat the teachings of their Master, likening the unique marriage between one man and one woman to the union between Christ and His Church which they experience as the Lord’s very body and His bride (Ephesians 5:21-33; 2 Corinthians 11:2).
“While condemning those who forbid marriage as an unholy institution, along with those who defile marriage through unchastity (1 Timothy 4:3, Hebrews 13:4), the apostles commend as ‘the will of God’ that Christians, as examples for all human beings, abstain from unchastity [porneia] and know how to marry ‘in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God.’ They insist that ‘whoever disregards this [teaching] disregards not man but God, who gives His Holy Spirit’ to those who believe (1 Thessalonians 4:3-8).
“Husbands are commanded to be the heads of their wives as Christ is the head of the Church. They are called to love their wives as their very selves, as Christ loves the Church, giving themselves in sacrifice to their brides as to their own bodies. And wives are called to respect and reverence their husbands as the Church devotes herself to Christ with Whom she too, like the wife with her husband, is ‘one flesh’ (Ephesians 5:21-33; Orthodox Marriage Service).
“The ‘great mystery’ of marriage (Ephesians 5:32) is the most used image and symbol in the Bible for God’s relationship with His People in the Old and New Testaments where the Lord is the husband and His people are His wife—so often unfaithful and adulterous (cf. Hosea, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Song of Songs, Corinthians, Ephesians, et. al.). And the ultimate union between the Lord and those saved by Christ for eternal life in God’s kingdom by the indwelling Holy Spirit is likened to the communion of marriage (Revelation 21-22).”
In light of the decisions rendered on June 26, 2013 by the Supreme Court of the United States of America with regard to same-sex marriage, we, the members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America, reaffirm that which had been stated in June 1992, namely that marriage involves the union of one man and one woman, as divinely revealed and experienced in the sacramental life of the Church. As such, the Church does not, and can not, condone or accept marriages apart from those involving one man and one woman who seal their relationship in the all-embracing love of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit.
We exhort the clergy and faithful of the Orthodox Church in America not to have fear or anxiety in the face of the decisions of the civil authorities of our lands, but to bear witness to the timeless teachings of Christ by striving for purity and holiness in their own lives, by instructing their families and communities in the precepts of the Holy Gospel, and by placing their trust in our Lord Who “has overcome the world.”
Very powerful message in His preaching...and pretty much spot on. You could actually see the Spirit of God take over....as he went along.
I don’t often listen to Pastors with his style,( clearly he’s a Southern Preacher).... But on this he did outstanding IMO. I do think we’re going to hear more like that and even with his style in the days ahead if God truly will grant this nation a revival once more. Otherwise we shall see the sound of the Spirit’s voice less and less.
Thanks for that link...I listened to the entire video....Good preaching and touches the soul and heart.
Remarkably many other Pastors spoke along this line...though some added possible this jolt will raise up our Pastors ‘to lead’ a revival across our nation.
Staying grounded in God’s word is correct...because if things get rough out there our Pastor’s might just end up in jail if the Lord does Tarry....
...”One pastor’s wife was crying in a conversation with a friend because she and her husband understand exactly what price they might have to pay.”....
Believers are going to be tested now and I think the goats and sheep will be made apparent. Pastors are coming together in this now...it’s shaken the Christian community...it needed to be shaken...again.
I just thought I’d share this message at this particular time in our history.
....”They were very cryptic about the location of these sessions, as if they feared hecklers/protesters, and did not state it in the bulletin”....
The beginnings of the believers going underground. They need to be careful IMO...Homosexuals have an agenda as we know and they do choose Christians as targets.
Your Pastor said....”our denomination is one of the few that attempts to “hold the tension” between the two sides”....
That is unsustainable. I would be interested in the outcome of your conversation with her. You are right to call her on it as hoped others did as well....
....”there was an alter call where 90% of the congregation came down to pray”....
The sheep to huddle together when there’s danger. I think Scotus doesn’t realize the flame of the Christian Spirit of God moving this nation that they will soon see unleashed.
May God raise of Pastor leaders to lead now...
...”We should reprove and admonish but have no fellowship”....
I think it’s quite clear the homosexuals are not just seeking their so called rights...rather they have an agenda to destroy the churches....from within.
I found this extradinarily interesting... written during that time of upheaval in Germany...certainly would apply to the US now. So I’m posting from your link....as follows:
...”During some of the darkest days of Germany, a faithful Lutheran presciently described ‘how governments lose their claim to legitimate authority’ according to Romans 13....
The Caesar cult in its manifold forms, the deification of the state, is one great form of the defection from the [true] idea of the state. There are also other possibilities of such defection. The government can forget and neglect its tasks. When it no longer distinguishes between right and wrong, when its courts are no longer governed by the strict desire for justice, but by special interests, when government no longer has the courage to exercise its law, fails to exercise its duties, undermines its own legal order, when it weakens through its family law parental authority and the estate of marriage, then it ceases to be governing authority.
Raising such a question can lead to heavy conflicts of conscience. But it is fundamentally conceivable, and it has time and again become reality in history, that a governing authority has ceased to be governing authority. In such a case there may indeed exist a submission to a superior power..... But the duty of obedience against this power no longer exists.”
[Hermann Sasse, “What Is the State?”(1932)]
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