[anniegetyourgun]

Ping.

[goodnesswins]

Another church bites the dust in its worship of humanism...

[SuziQ]

After the service, Hoshibata presided over a meeting in which the Woodland Park congregants voted unanimously to adopt a statement of inclusion that is seemingly in contradiction with official United Methodist doctrine.

So what happens to those members of the congregation who ACCEPT the official UM doctrine? I guess they'll just have to leave. I'd be curious to see how many do so in the following weeks.

[egarvue]

"We include people of all.....biblical interpretations"

Aside from everything else, this says it all. They're not Methodists, or Baptists, or Presbyterians, or Catholics, or anything else. They're Unitarians in sheep's clothing. Why don't they drop the whole "church" pretense, and admit that they're just a womyn's study group now?

[EdReform]

Bump & Ping

[Sweet Hour of Prayer]

There is a way that seems right unto man, that leads to death.

I find it amazing when professing Christians choose to identify themselves first as: homosexual, American, political party... The only identity that Christians should have, should be followers of Christ. Claiming any of the other is living in the old flesh and even exalting it over Christ!

[headsonpikes]

"We all need a fresh start..."

I'll bet he loves feeling fresh. ;^)

[r9etb]

Sigh.

We pledge ourselves to engage in the radical hospitality Jesus taught," the statement says, in part.

Jesus' 'radical hospitality' was not unconditional: I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. (Luke 5:32)

Given that we're all sinners, He's calling on all of us to repent. I can't shake the feeling that these people are among "the righteous" of this statement, who are by their own actions excluding themselves from salvation.