Posted on 07/05/2015 3:42:45 PM PDT by NYer
Well, lucky for us all Jesus didn’t wait around to be asked all these 2000 years.
>>I have been a former Methodist for 26 years-
I’ve only been former Methodist for 1 year so I’m still in detox.
No, Satan has really won today. I hope you enjoy your newfound "love".
Was just thinking. How they spell idiot in Irish dialect. Takes a minute to figure it out
Ijut. Or ijiut
I think it’s the second one
Most reasonable people have at least heard the story of the wedding at Cana
As a Methodist, I attended a Lutheran Cursillo in 1980, where I learned how much of Wesley's teachings (many of which had been left behind, forgotten, or corrupted over the years) meshed with Luther's. I didn't know it at the time, but God was preparing me for the switchover to LCMS in His timing, nine years later, and I was led to it by, of all things, a former Southern Baptist missionary to Jordan, who began to question his own faith, and ended up as LCMS. Whatever your journey is to be, God has already laid out the path and lined up the necessary gifts, supplies, and supporters.
I've got just a handful of years more than chajin has. I got out when my local congregation started teaching pantheism in the weekly Bible study, long before the denomination went south. You're in good company.
Joseph Fletcher would be pleased. God, not so much. Psalm 2:4 comes to mind.
I believe that what Medford has done here is known as ‘grieving the holy spirit’.
Gee, I guess Jesus didn’t care whether or not Mr. Mefford asked him, because he went ahead and defined marriage as between one man and one woman several places in the Bible - so much arrogance and self-importance today, Jesus would have a difficult time making any headway with his teachings of humility and self-betterment.....
>>As a Methodist, I attended a Lutheran Cursillo in 1980,
Decolores! I went to Walk to Emmaus in 2008 and it started me questioning all of Arminian theology after that (i.e. if God is great, then why is he waiting by the phone for us to call?). My wife attended Via de Cristo in 2012, so I switched over to that community and served on several teams. My questions led me to the PCA, where like you in the LCMS, the questions finally began to have satisfactory answers.
These people are so deceived. I don’t think they are going to experience “love” where they are headed. Nope - they will experience weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, without the benefit of a drink of water or air conditioning.
The science of the question was settled well before Jesus. In Matthew 19:4 Jesus refers to concepts of gender and marriage as axioms for a logical proof.
They cant until they change their Book of Discipline at next years General Conference.
The UMC General Conference is now dominated by orthodox Christians from Africa who out-vote the North American revisionsts.
The North American heterodox are openly talking schism and separation because they know they cannot "win"
I guess I could be called a former Methodist although I used say “I am a Christian who attends the Methodist church”. Saw the homosexual agenda getting a stronger grip even in the south about 10 years ago. All starting from the administration and most of those from the North East. The Southern Conferences have been the ones holding the others back from going full homo. They are losing.
>>The UMC General Conference is now dominated by orthodox Christians from Africa who out-vote the North American revisionsts.
>>The North American heterodox are openly talking schism and separation because they know they cannot “win”
They don’t want schism, but they will campaign for new rules to allow conferences to follow the cultures that they are in. Kinda breaks the whole “in the world, but not of the world” thing, but the UMC isn’t really concerned with those “guidelines” found in “a 2000+ year old book written for cultures that no longer are relevant”, are they? They say that God is still speaking (but he just stopped writing).
>>The Southern Conferences have been the ones holding the others back from going full homo. They are losing.
Because people are fleeing to bible-believing churches. #Godwins
“...but I have sensed the joy of the Holy Spirit today as so many of our brothers and sisters...celebrate that their love for each other is recognized at long-last.”
Dude, I think that was Richard Simmons you were sensing, not the Holy Spirit.
It is pretty obvious that many of these so-called church leaders are less theologically driven than the majority of devout laymen. They are at best fools, at worst, tools of Satan. They should have no credibility and certainly no authority within any church worthy of the name.
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