Good.
Howsabout simply reaffirming the need to preach without reservation the Gospel of Jesus Christ, given into death for sinners. Talk about a shocker.
Man, I still can’t believe there’s a major church that has leadership that believes gay relationships are okay. Strangely, I doubt they allow open adulterous relationships. Where’s the common sense and Bible knowledge on this there?
One church in a small village 21 one miles down the road left the main body some while back. Here in town they are in the process. Several members have simply joined other denominations.
Small towns —small congregations. Sad it has come to this.
Ping
www.goodsoil.org/legislation/50-2010-synod-assembly-report-
The list is updated weekly.
Thus far 58 of 65 Synods have met. The disaster is far greater than we could have imagined in August of last year; for only two Synods of 58 have managed to pass Memorials repudiating the Churchwide Assembly.
One of those--South Dakota, subject of this discussion--was by the thinnest of margins. South Carolina had much stronger margins.
G.K. Chesterton warned that "when orthodoxy becomes optional, eventually it will be prosribed."
Rapid City Journal: http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/2da57d6e-768a-11df-9918-001cc4c002e0.htmlSplit votes on gay issues reflects divisions in Lutheran church
The 2010 South Dakota Synod Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America twice voted in support of gay clergy on Saturday, aligning the state assembly with the national church’s position -- a seeming switch from Friday’s vote opposing the national church’s acceptance of gay relationships.The resolutions were responses to the national 2009 Churchwide Assembly's inclusive position on gay couples and gay clergy, which disconcerted many congregations and worshipers nationwide. . . .
The homo-activists need to be out-activisted!