Posted on 12/07/2009 4:10:53 PM PST by wagglebee
Hey! I began attending a church plant Bible study by a PCA church in ‘83. It was like the clouds rolling back and revealing a clear, deep blue sky. When the Bible study disbanded many years later and we needed a church home, we traveled 67 miles every Sunday to be sure to attend a PCA church.
Yes. It is that important.
We better stick together, lol.
“United Church of Christ, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterians OK Abortion Funding”
The Spirit has departed. ICHABOD!
That is true. It is not possible for the United Methodist CHURCH to have signed this. There is zero way that could have happened.
Most people don't realize that the UMC is really a very loose organization except for that once-every-four-year meeting. It is a conglomeration of independent bishops, agencies, and boards with no one in charge of anyone else outside their own area.
I agree that the Board of Church and Society is the most likely culprit...or some smaller office beneath them.
The media doesn't make the distinction, but I can't really fault them. Our organization (lack thereof, really) is confusing to an outsider.
AMEN, brother! As an Elder in a Chrisatian Church (Disciples of Christ) congregation, I can pretty much attest to the fact that the denomination on the national level is under assault from the hard left.
I am not familiar with the "Disciple Justice Action Center" but I suspect it is just another face of the "Disciples Justice Action Network" aka DJAN. Bad guys, at best. We once had a guest preacher affiliated with them ... he launched into a hate-America diatribe of a sermon touting "biblical economics" straight from the Gospel According to Marx.
Horrific!
1. These folks are not aligned with their members
2. Their denominations are in decline (and that decline is accelerating). God is not blessing their work.
3. Their public pronouncements are in conflict with The Word
“Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.” (Gal 6:7)
I highly recommend visitors to this site take time to sign the Manhattan Declaration
http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/
“We are Orthodox, Catholic, and evangelical Christians who have united at this hour to reaffirm fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them. These truths are:
1.the sanctity of human life
2.the dignity of marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife
3.the rights of conscience and religious liberty.”
America isn’t an undifferentiated mass.
There is no rationale for good people to suffer simply by virtue of being neighbors to bad people.
See my post here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2402432/posts?page=17#17
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