And, those of us who walk away from the EC as I did some years ago will always wonder if we should have stayed and fought. We will wonder if we were being selfish, wonder if we had betrayed a friend/family member, or took the easy way out.
It probably was the easy way out but a lot less stress on you. You could have stayed, fought, and withheld donations for a year to see if anything could be done. But there are too many liberals to change things.
And, those of us who walk away from the EC as I did some years ago will always wonder if we should have stayed and fought. . . . . .
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You ask a hard question. Martin Luther fought for a while but the mainstream of the day didn’t care for what he had to say.
Unfortunately, today the mainstream churches are all about money. The term poor as a church mouse was a reference to ministers of the church being poor, today in the mainstream churches they are not. The “mainstream” denominations have a very large hierarchy that sucks money from the local congregations and every minister works toward a larger church and eventually to be a bishop or other administrator in the leadership of the denomination.
When one of the homosexuals in the Calvary decided that the priest was not homosexual friendly he left and took his donations with him and many in the leadership of the congregation were upset over the loss.
To me it is most unfortunate that money takes a higher position than doctrine.
I believe in loving the sinner and hating the sin, but honoring the sinner in his sin is not hating the sin. I would hope all sinners including queers, adulterers and all the rest of us would attend church and learn to do without the sins and give them all away but we won’t as long as the church honors it.