Posted on 06/01/2012 5:00:46 PM PDT by Morgana
There is a price to be paid by reverends who turn their backs on both scripture and their own congregations:
The reverend of a St. Paul church says he needs to raise $200,000 to pay off a church loan after most of his followers left because of his support for gay marriage.
The Rev. Oliver White runs Grace Community United Church of Christ in St. Paul. The 69-year-old said he needs to raise the money by June 30.
“We lost our income when we lost a number of people from our congregation.” White said.
White said two-thirds of his followers left after he said he supported same-sex marriage, and said he was against the marriage amendment that will be up for a vote in November.
(Excerpt) Read more at moonbattery.com ...
Apparently two -thirds of the congregation follow the Bible and Christ,only one-third follow the preacher.
It is repugnant to speak of parishoners as followers of any preacher.
Probably so. My wife & I stopped going to our local United Methodist Church of many years a couple of years ago when the most recent woman pastor appointee rotated in and started preaching from Time magazine and throwing out the pro-gay comments (among other pro-lib stuff) during sermons. Seeya.
In a recent article I read, he said he had 320 congregants, and now has 110, but a NYT’s article from 2007 noted his congregants at 70.
He is apparently bad at math..Who would take out a 200,000 dollar loan with only 70 men, women, and children to pay it?
If you’ve looked at Pics of the Church, and the neighborhood it’s in, it’s far from affluent.
I think he screwed up, and has now inflated the number of congregants who left, or that he had originally to pony up sympathy from the gay community..
“Send me a check. I’m pro gay..” Seems like it has worked, just not to the tune of $200,000.
Did your church get the loan?
Didn't need it. Changed the format to feather boas and
showtunes and added a steamy sauna. Business is flaming.
I guess the good Reverend Oliver White should ask all the local homosexual community to donate to his church so he can retire the $200,000 debt. Yeah, right! Got to get right on that.
Wheat: 2/3
Tares: 1/3
Unrepentant.
Romans 1:8 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
What a crazy world we live in when a holy man would condemn morality.
Normally, that quote would end: .....are “well grounded and smiled upon by the Lord.”
I would not be at all surprised of Obugger bails them out.
Pay off the loan BEFORE you spit in your congregations faces.
The "reverend" has control of the tax-free assets created and paid for by the congregation. He simply lost his previous tax-free cash flow.
Obviously, the people of congregations (like many before) learned nothing from the episode. Were they capable of learning anything, the people of congregations would long ago have seized control of THEIR OWN assets and cash flow to prevent precisely this sort of hostile takeover by leftists.
And the Gramscian marxists continue their "long march through the institutions".
Religions are man-made, and therefore are corrupted from their inception.
I would have left when they started ordaining women.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20timothy%202:11-15&version=ESVUK
Ordaining homosexuals is the usual next step.
mormonism is not Christianity.
lds do not beleive in the Christ of the Bible.
Gordon B. Hinckley: “The traditional Christ of whom they speak is not the Christ of whom I [LdS President and Living Prophet] speak.”
Waste of time-
Get nasty with Satan and get what he promises. If you had favor with 6OD and turned who have more trouble than you will ever know.
United Methodist came out formally against homosexual marriage recently
Amazing for a usually lib UCC outfit in MN...to reject it
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-05-03/methodist-homosexuality-vote/54737970/1
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