Satan comes in many forms.
“Full membership means being able to serve in leadership and give all of your gifts and to receive all the sacraments; not only communion and baptism, but child dedication and marriage.”
Interesting statement. Marriage and the curious baptist rite of "child dedication" are sacrements?
One wonders at his precision in discernment.
BTW, for them g00gling, there's a "Grace Point" church, and multiple "Grace Pointe" (with an "e", like "Hi Pointe". Who thinks up these things? Shakes head...) churches.
Gracepoint with an "e" dot net appears to be the one you want.
I always check for a statement of faith. GracePointe with an "e"'s "What we believe" is stark.
GracePointe Church welcomes you to experience Christianity as a journey and a way of life. Our faith is so much more than a set of dogmas and doctrines demanding total agreement. We invite you to join us as we seek to discover the ageless meaning of the gospel for our time. We experience God through creation, tradition, reason, scripture and the every-day moments of life. We believe in the liberty of individual conscience, the call of every person to live out their own journey, and the responsibility of each of us to be the express image of God in the world.God loves us immensely and is not to be feared. At GracePointe we believe that Jesus’ life, death and resurrection teach us who we are – the beloved children of God. We love God best when we fulfill our lives’ purpose of loving ourselves and others.
If you have ever wondered if you belong, we’ve all wondered that. Our Church expresses its love in the radical hospitality of Jesus – welcoming all persons into our midst, without regard to race, age, gender, sexual orientation, or physical abilities. You are part of the human family and thus our family, God’s family. So welcome to GracePointe Church.
I might insert a rhetorical "blah blah blah", but, that's it. The sum total of their statement of belief.
They do provide a link to the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds, which is something, I guess.
Flipping through Pastor Stan's recommended reading" ("powered by Amazon, for your purchasing convenience!") makes me think this move should not come as a surprise. Catholic mystics, a lot of Frederick Buechner, Tony Campolo. Greg Boyd ("open theism"). Bart "the bitter apostate" Ehrman. Brian McLaren. Ex-archbishop Rowan Williams. Marcus Borg. (Not to say the list is all dreck. There is some good stuff. OK, C. S. Lewis, and Augustine is about all I'd want to read from their list.)
My informed guess, from looking over the site is, if you were attending this church, this move to full inclusion of the sodomites should not have come as a surprise. This is a liberal megachurch, not a conservative one.
So he has become one of those “wide gate” preachers?
“Listening period”? “Conversation”? When God has made Himself clear on a subject, the listening period is OVER. Yet That old serpent, the devil, is forever starting up conversations and feigning confusion: “Did God really say...?”
What about homosexual men and women who have truly come to Christ, being “snatched from the fire” as it were, having to endure these WE’RE NICER THAN GOD false teachers telling them to accept what they now know is a demonic lie? A great disservice to them, to have stumbling blocks put in their paths and called stepping stones!
PING!
Just another feel good PC pimp trying to show he’s hip.
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Methinks it was more like satan’s fart.
Another wolf in sheep’s clothing.
At least some attendees had the good sense to get out of Dodge.