Not me!
Posted on 04/27/2013 4:22:45 PM PDT by marshmallow
A Church of England diocese has made building bridges with the gay community part of its new bishop’s job description.
The Diocese of Manchester has instructed the official panel appointing its new bishop to select someone who can establish “positive relationships” with gay Anglicans and non-worshippers.
The panel, which met on Friday, was told that the successor to the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, who retired earlier this year, should build on “significant engagement” with “lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities” in Manchester.
The move comes amid growing tensions within the Church over its attitude to gay worshippers and clergy.
Such a public endorsement of working with gay Anglicans by a major diocese will cheer liberals but be seen by traditionalists as a further erosion of their views.
Manchester’s move comes months after the Church dropped its prohibition on clergy in civil partnerships becoming bishops.
The decision caused anger among traditionalists, including senior African bishops, who described the move as a “grave departure from the Church’s doctrine” by the Church’s House of Bishops.
As a result of the change Dr Jeffrey John, the openly gay Dean of St Albans, has been widely tipped for consideration as Bishop of Durham, a move which would catapult him into the third most senior post in the Church of England, and one held until recently by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev Justin Welby.
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The vast majority of Anglicans are African now, and they are utterly disgusted with the perversity and heresy of the British and American churches.
They’ve become the Church of the high holy homosexual.
We need a pool to bet on whether the Church of England or the GOP will be the first to go extinct.
This is economical. A “church” which obviously doesn’t need to buy any Bibles
I would bet on the GOP going extinct first, homosexuals will keep the Church of England going.
A Church of England diocese has made building bridges with the gay community part of its new bishop’s job description.
The only job of the Church is to love the homosexual sinners and to help then seek and understand God’s direction.
Gag me with a spoon. Gay Friendly Bishop. This is ridiculous, heck in 1996, I went through a non-fault divorce, stripped of license to preach, stripped of Master degree as granted by the seminary and i did nothing wrong, just my ex wife wanted not to be a ministers wife any longer. the Anglican church has fallen further and further from God, when the Bible has homosexuality as the following:
“ do not you know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be decived: Neither he sexually immoral nor idolators nor adulterers nor male porostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God 1 Cor 6:9-10.
Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy spirit, who is in you, whom you received from God? You are not your own; you were brought at a price. Therefore honor your God with your body. 1 Cor 6:18-20
True. The “buggering” crowd just gets larger and membership must surely increase in Churches with gay and lesbian Bishops- Church of England, Episcopalians, and Lutherans.
Possibly make Piers Morgan a bishop and send him back!
I would have made Christianity a higher priority in choosing a Bishop. Apparently, that does not matter to today’s Anglicans.
I predict a lot of the traditionalists will convert, most likely to Catholicism. There’s only so far down the River Styx that a church can go.
If every act that a person desires is OK and deemed non-sinful, of what use is a religion?
most already have. There are very few faithful left in the CoE
non-worshippers? That covers about 99.9999% of the city I bet
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