Posted on 02/09/2010 5:55:38 PM PST by SmithL
Exactly! My Church has it’s first vote the 28th. It will be close. If the Church does not leave, my family is.
You ought to try being a member of a church in the Atlanta area. We have members from all over the country.
The Moravians were added in 1999 but since so much attention was given to the "Called To Common Mission" with TEC it sort of flew "under the radar". That should NOT have happened because the Moravians use the Altered Augsburg Confession denying the presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
The UMC agreement was approved in Minneapolis last August and again, was "under the rader" because homosex and toppled steeples made the headlines.
This is very true. I served an orthodox Lutheran parish in rural northern Minnesota some years ago. One of the things that was done from time to time in the cold weather months was to have purely social gatherings in the church fellowship hall. Sometimes we would play cards, whist, pinochle, etc.
Some weeks after one such event I happened to be at our regional pastoral conference in a town about hour’s drive away or a little more and, after the conference, going into a store in town, heard the locals talking about some Lutheran church north or there, that is, up in our area that sanctioned - gasp! - card playing in the church fellowship hall. How scandalous! I chatted with them for a while to see how they felt about other, ah, issues.
Drinking (in any amount, however moderate), dancing, and card playing were the works of the devil. Never mind that they had a female preacher, prayers for the dead, fellowship with those who denied the real presence of Christ in the sacrament, and were not too sure it was such a serious matter to concern oneself with as to whether God was Triune or not.
It was, needless to say, an eye-opening experience to hear such from average folk of an ELCA parish.
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