Posted on 03/04/2013 5:59:01 AM PST by Gamecock
They can remove the Cross right after they shut-down.
GW Bush’s “Christianity”.
I wonder what sort of Jewish "clergy" would be trained there?
alright!!- just in time for Easter!
The NEW moneychangers in the Temple!
I gave up on the Methodists years ago. Mr. Mercat was raised Methodist so when we got married, I tried to get him interested in going again. He was not but a few years later, the Easter after his father died, we took his mother to Easter services. The lady minister did not, in the entire service, mention Jesus or the Resurrection. Now, last Saturday, we went to a small central Kansas town for a funeral. It was in a lovely Methodist Church with a marvelously timbered roof, stained glass windows and a full pipe organ. That lady minister was quoting scripture and praying to Jesus with a radiant look on her face which told me that she was a truly righteous person. So there are pockets of faith.
About 10 years ago, I heard a “mainline” Methodist minister say that even he had doubts about the divinity of Christ. I think he was saying it to try to comfort someone but I took it as a really bad sign and a horrible thing for him to say. Other Methodist churches I attended were more interested in food drives and putting on dinners than teaching the Word. I knew it was only a matter of time before “mainline” liberal Methodist churches shut down.
“After recently facing some financial challenges, the seminary decided to more or less literally sell itself for $50 million to a large donor who helped transform it from a Christian seminary into Claremont Lincoln University, devoted to jointly training Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Jain clergy.”
What profit it a man to gain the whole world.... ?
Burn the place down.
Q: I wonder what sort of Jewish “clergy” would be trained there?
A: Liberal women rabbis.
The united methodists haven’t been Christian for years. Like all the old liberal mainline denominations, they are dying a slow death as Christains seek to worship with other Christians (that is, at denominations that still follow the bible) and non-Christians don’t really show up for worship at all.
The most conservative (Bible believing) denominations are thriving while the liberals are dying on the vine.
How odd: Do it God’s way and prosper or do it man’s way and die. Who’d a saw that coming?!
The “great falling away” continues....
**Methodist Seminary Ponders Removing Cross from Chapel**
**Claremont Lincoln University, devoted to jointly training Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Jain clergy.**
HUH? And what does the Bible say is someone is ashamed of Christ?
The Wesley are spinning in their grave. They might as well take the cross down. As predicted, it has become an offense. If you abandon the Scriptures, these results are to be expected. Contrary to popular belief, there ARE MORAL ABSOLUTES and if you ignore them or discard them, you should not be dismayed at the.resulting consequences. Men change. GOD NEVER CHANGES.
I was raised Baptist. When I married my Methodist wife years ago we went to a small town, conservative God-fearing Methodist Church. After a few years of showing her where her tithes went and after a couple months of a new pastor that caused the small membership to dwindle I got her in a rock solid Southern Baptist Church. She could not believe the difference and we haven’t looked back. I just wished I had pressed more early on to get her there from the get go.
The fact that this discussion could ever even be had is evidence that the place should be burned to the ground.
". . . the 'guy'"????
THE GREAT COMMISSION
Matthew 28:18-20
18 Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. 19 Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 20 Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
i hardly believe God is pleased His children are sharing the same worship area with those that do not consider Him, God. I can’t see any way He’d think this was the right choice to make.
Can’t serve God and mammon (money, idols, etc)
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