Sad reality bump. I and others vigorously fought the apostates in The Episcopagan Church and they viciously attacked and destroyed anyone who questioned them. That is also part of the story. There was no lie they would not tell about me and others to discredit us. There were whisper campaigns and malicioius gosspi.
In the end, everything I predicted would happen from women’s ordination has come true — and worse. People now say, “You were right.” But back then, they were cowardly and afraid. All has been lost. Never has a denomination fallen so far so fast as the Episcopagan Church. The so-called Presiding Bishop, Mz. Schori, is Satan’s own disciple. So was her predecessor and most of the bishops in the church since 1995.
To Catholics once-Catholic Father Martin Luther was the apostate who changed the New Testament because he thought that we could be saved by faith alone, that works weren't necessary. At first he wanted to exclude the letter of St. James because it focused on good works, not just faith. Luther's followers got Luther to change his mind about "his" bible and keep St. James in.
I also learned that the Episcopalian and Anglican Churches came from England and a king who dumped the faith of his fathers because he HAD to have a son. Son came and went before son was 20 and his six wives form a poem: divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived.
I wonder at a church with those roots.
Those Churches, since then, have been as good as any Christian denomination. I was just discussing history, not the value of denominations.
In the late ‘90s, we had a growing Episcopal congregation near our summer home, and were in search of a new priest. The search committee had narrowed their choice to a Floridian when one of them said “We haven’t considered any minorities; can we look thorough the stack just once more?”
The choice was reversed - a tiny, sweet looking woman with minimal qualifications and brass ovaries the size of dump trucks became our new rector. The Result? Over 250 congregants driven off, including couples that had been attending for over 40 years. (One was actually excommunicated!) One by one, the search committee members resigned in shame or stopped coming. The bishop did nothing; the church is now in mission status. The pastor? No problem - she still has a full schedule and plenty to do:
http://www.creativespirituality.net/illuminations
The sad part of this is that so many of the former congregants will never set foot inside a church again.
They don’t read the Bible and think whatever the politicians say as far as helping others is Christianity.
Homosexuality is plain old wrong. divorce and remarriage is plain old wrong. Pastors need to know this, dig into the facts with these divorced people marrying one another and tell them to go back to their original spouse that God has made them into one flesh and refuse to do the weddings.
sex outside marriage is plain old wrong. Also wrong is slef actualization. All psychologists should be kicked out of your congregations too because they are full of lies and deceptions and selfishness.