Posted on 05/26/2018 4:33:38 PM PDT by upchuck
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) cut relational and financial ties with the D.C. Baptist Convention (DCBC) for refusing to disfellowship a church with two lesbian pastors.
The Executive Committee of the SBC issued a warning to the DCBC in February in which the D.C. convention was given 90 days to remove any church in its fellowship that practice affirming, approving or endorsing homosexual behavior, according to Baptist Press.
The executive committee gave the warning specifically with regard to Calvary Baptist Church, which affirmed a lesbian couple as co-pastors in 2017, according to Juicy Ecumenism. The D.C. Baptist Convention failed to comply with the SBCs warning as of May 21 and has therefore been disfellowshipped.
The formal relationship between the SBC and the DCBC has come to an end, read a statement from interim Executive Committee president D. August Boto, according to Baptist Press.
Boto told Baptist Press that the EC at its February meeting expressed deep regret over the need to take this action, but felt compelled to affirm biblical truth over organizational relationships.
With the severing of its relationship with the SBC, the DCBC lost its authorization to receive and disburse Cooperative Program and other SBC contributions, effectively cutting it off from SBC financial support and other aid.
Its about affirming or endorsing the practice of homosexuality...God will forgive all.(except disbelief)..but you cannot say that any sin is OK to practice.
Committ a sin...regrettable and forgivable..say it’s ok to practice that sin and practice that sin? ...sinful and excommunicable.
So the problem here is not “Catholic-ISM” “openly embracing” homosexuality
The problem is that the Vatican has been rife with overt homosexuality during multiple popes.
There are reports of a Vatican homosexual mafia.
There are public newspaper stories of drug-fueled homosexual parties in Vatican City.
THAT is the message of Rome.
It shouts more loudly than your claims of the official teaching.
It is sad.
Turns my stomach every time I go past a church that has a rainbow flag and a Black Lives Matter banner.
And there are far too many of far too many denominations.
You are correct and I feel the same... but I realize these are churches in name only and are largely playing church and are dead.
Just zombie churches.
However, it is not right to judge the Catholic Faith by those who have rejected its teachings; any more than it would be right to judge the Baptist Faith by those who have rejected Baptist teachings.
It has always been the practice of the opponents of Christ to to equate Christianity with its most repellent hypocrites.
I only evaluate the Roman faith by what it teaches and what actions it chooses, in comparison to what God says in the Scriptures.
And I give you (and anyone else), I hope, the same just judgment.
Pew that’s a stinking bunch of suckers...
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