Posted on 08/06/2015 5:49:28 AM PDT by mkleesma
An ordained United Church of Canada minister who believes in neither God nor Bible said Wednesday she is prepared to fight an unprecedented attempt to boot her from the pulpit for her beliefs. In an interview at her West Hill church, Rev. Gretta Vosper said congregants support her view that how you live is more important than what you believe in. “I don’t believe in...the god called God,” Vosper said. “Using the word gets in the way of sharing what I want to share.”
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Her husband is Scott Kearn, the church's music director. He writes insipid, bumanistic hymns for the congregation to sing.
On the plus side, the Episcopalians will probably embrace her with open arms. At least if she is willing to experiment with homosexuality.
The god she believes in is named "I".
The United Church started ordaining practicing homosexuals in 1987. They've had very weak doctrinal and moral standards for decades. In the mid-1990s they appointed a national moderator who denied the resurrection.
Vosper's church is only the natural outgrowth of a liberal denomination that has come completely unmoored. I came across a document on the church's Web site once that basically said their only doctrinal absolute was that you couldn't question someone else's beliefs.
They deserve her.
Wiser now: According to the article, there are only 50 members left. They need to withhold their donations to the church until she is forced to leave because she isn’t being paid. I have seen several churches do just that, one to the point of being forced to close.
A case study on your point:
The pastor at Sierra Madre (CA) Congregational Church decided c. 1970 that he was now an atheist. The great majority of the congregation left and started Bethany Church around the corner, which prospers and remains faithful to this day. With no one paying his salary, the atheist left.
Recognizing that they already had fine physical facilities and needed only godly leadership, the tiny remnant reached out to the large Lake Ave. CC in nearby Pasadena and hired its youth minister, Richard J. Anderson. His first sermon at SMCC in 1972 was to sixteen souls, including his wife and three children. He retired finally after forty years.
Conservatively estimated, the number of people who found Christ as Lord and Savior, through Pastor Anderson's personal ministry along with parachurch ministries founded under his pastorship, already exceeds one million and is increasing now exponentially. God had the last laugh by using that atheist to great effect in harvesting souls for His Kingdom.
No difference between her a minister who is a homosexual....
> Her husband is Scott Kearn, the church’s music director. He writes insipid, bumanistic hymns for the congregation to sing.
Eleanor Roosevelt was married too. So is Hillary Clinton...: )
Well if your other eye is lesbian you might have an issue...especially if the rest of you is male...(play on words warning!) ;)
Deeply disordered soul.
That is a wonderful testimony. Thanks.
*shrug* A lesbian could have been ordained in the United Church for half a decade before she was. No need for the "beard."
Unattractive liberal woman ≠ lesbian.
Typically, the first assistant pastor hired at a small, growing church is assigned responsibility for Christian education: adult and children's Sunday school, midweek Bible studies, etc. Not Dick Anderson. His first hire was the now-famous Dr. Hugh Ross, who was then following God's call to leave astronomy and CalTech to enter Christian ministry as the church's full-time Evangelism Minister. Hugh retained that post for over ten years, until with Dick Anderson's active encouragement he founded Reasons to Believe and, as it grew, finally left to run it.
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