[lightman]

A house divided against itself should become two houses.

[lightman]

In August of 2009 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) estabalished a "Full Communion Partnership" with The United Methodist Church

Therefore:

Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

Keep a Good Lent!

The August 19 date refers solely to the adoption of the gaysbian agenda, NOT to the “Full Communion” agreement.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[Salman]

Two factions: Sodomy and non-sodomy. Right?

Seems like that's the big religious divide these days, not just among Methodists, and not just among Christians.

It's as if sodomy itself were a religion.

[Bonemaker]

Knock yourselves out.

"The church also urges congregations to advocate for laws that prevent or reduce gun violence, such as:

Universal background checks on all gun purchases

Ensuring all guns are sold through licensed gun retailers

Prohibiting gun purchases for those under restraining order due to threat of violence and those with serious mental illness who pose a danger to themselves and their communities

Ensuring greater access to services for those with mental illness

Establishing a minimum age of 21 years for a gun purchase or possession

Banning large capacity ammunition magazines and weapons

Promoting new technologies to aid law-enforcement agencies to trace crime guns and promote public safety"

This content was produced by Ask The UMC, a ministry of United Methodist Communications

[Diana in Wisconsin]

We’ve had this conversation before; Dear Old Mom is a Methodist - mainly because she got kicked OUT of our Misourri Synod Lutheran Church back in the day when they took Divorce VERY seriously.

I cannot STAND going to church with her. It’s nothing but a gab-fest, glad-handing and goofing around.

The Word? Maybe a few minuted devoted to that.

This is not surprising to me in the least. *Rolleyes*

[fwdude]

I used to do all my discussions and debates in mainline churches in the United States. That doesn’t happen anymore. Because the factions within the mainline churches that insisted that they were tolerant and diverse and pluralistic, and that “we should hear all the voices,” after they gain the ascendancy in mainline denominations, they don’t want to hear all the voices anymore. They only want to hear their side presented. And that a group that claims to be tolerant and diverse and pluralistic ends up narrowing and radicalizing into a hard-left movement that no longer can call itself a viable representation of the Church to the world.

— Dr. Robert Gagnon
(https://youtu.be/m9MzyV-vgqI)