Posted on 03/25/2014 6:38:55 AM PDT by MNDude
World Vision's American branch will no longer require its more than 1,100 employees to restrict their sexual activity to marriage between one man and one woman.
Abstinence outside of marriage remains a rule. But a policy change announced Monday [March 24] will now permit gay Christians in legal same-sex marriages to be employed at one of America's largest Christian charities.
In an exclusive interview, World Vision U.S. president Richard Stearns explained to Christianity Today the rationale behind changing this "condition of employment," whether financial or legal pressures were involved, and whether other Christian organizations with faith-based hiring rules should follow World Vision's lead.
Stearns asserts that the "very narrow policy change" should be viewed by others as "symbolic not of compromise but of [Christian] unity." He even hopes it will inspire unity elsewhere among Christians.
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My wife and I have contributed numerous times to World Vision. If this is true, then it’s the last time. From now on it’s Samaritan’s Purse!
It wasn’t a question of how much, but how to do it.
I’m not official where I attend yet (out of honesty — I don’t subscribe to the entire Baptist covenant and came from a teeny tiny bible church in another city where it wasn’t an issue) but they look like they have been doing “a lot.”
If they are truly Christians, they should know the Bible. Funny how adultery or fornication is not allowed but another thing that is expressly forbidden in the Bible is OK now?
“Abstinence outside of marriage remains a rule.”
Why? Isn’t that taking a theological position?
Wrong.
One Way to Heaven
Many Paths to hell
Our church is rather small, but I am amazed again and again at how much giving this little church does. During the low season (when vacationers aren’t attending) we’re lucky to get a dozen people in the pews on a sunday (versus hundreds of retiree vacationers other times of the year), but still we manage to support, all on our own, an entire missionary family in China, and still raise money to feed & clothe the poor, help out parishioners and the needy with exceptional needs all around us, and support ourselves without bank loans. A church doesn’t have to be MEGA to be effective or to give much. We keep nothing back for fancy facilities, para-church “perks” and the like. No coffee bars, just ministering to those in need.
cough*cafeteriachristians**coughcough.
“Report” it and leave a note for the Mods.
Amen. They’re CINOs (Christians in Name Only).
The story I heard was the Emporer of Japan said at the surrender to McArthur that Japan would become anything (faithwise) that MacArthur wanted. He didn’t take up the Emporer’s offer.
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