i agree this is sad. and certainly the true Christians shouldn’t lose their church, because the leadership becomes godless.
(and even worse than this, is Warren and other Ministers, supporting Chrislam. Islam IS the religion of satan,
and a much greater threat to the world, than gays.)
but, i must disagree with:
“This is what happens when you structure a church with authority figures”
there are many many Christian churches WITHOUT bishops, who’s leaders now condone homosexuality, in defiance of holy scripture.
big churches, small churches.
and there are several very large churches, WITH bishops,
(including Russian Orthodox),
who still CLEARLY condemn homosexual acts as sinful.
(and like the “flak over target” saying, the one church that is most persecuted, is the one Satan probably hates the most. i know which Church that is.)
and rather than poke at others, i would rather look for unity with Christians who sincerely try to follow scripture, and proclaim “Jesus is Lord”.
The leadership in an Apostolic Church is Jesus Christ Himself. The hierarchy may be corrupt at times, but the church is always brought back or cleansed by the Lord. This only happens in His One Apostolic Church in orthodoxy (small ‘o’) hence we see that despite the persecutions right up to 1991 (communism being the latest), orthodoxy survives and resurges.
There is only one Church and it is not a building or denomination.