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Lesbian Bishop Asserts Support of “People in the pews”
The Institute for Religion & Democracy ^ | 1 October A.D. 2019 | Benjamine Saine

Posted on 10/02/2019 6:24:19 PM PDT by lightman

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FR posting rulers prevented me from placing quotation marks around "Bishop" in the title.
1 posted on 10/02/2019 6:24:19 PM PDT by lightman
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To: aberaussie; Aeronaut; aliquando; AlternateViewpoint; AnalogReigns; Archie Bunker on steroids; ...
In August of 2009 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) estabalished a "Full Communion Partnership" with The United Methodist Church

Therefore:



Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

Be rooted in Christ!

The August 19 date referes solely to the adoption of the gaysbian agenda, NOT to the “Full Communion” agreement.

2 posted on 10/02/2019 6:29:19 PM PDT by lightman (Byzantine Troparia: The "praise choruses" of antiquity.)
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To: lightman

Fake Bishop. Fake church.


3 posted on 10/02/2019 6:55:23 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: lightman

Obviously these people only read redacted versions of the Bible.

4 posted on 10/02/2019 7:31:31 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: lightman

I seem to recall that the “People in the pews” supported the golden calf....

Just sayin’

Love,
O2


5 posted on 10/02/2019 7:41:33 PM PDT by omegatoo (You know you'll get your money's worth...become a monthly donor!)
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To: lightman; seawolf101; HighSierra5; oswegodeee; flaglady47
Thanks for posting this informative article. If it were not for FR and you, Lightman, most of us who are interested would not be able to know what splits, schisms, divisions, infighting and straight-out heresies are happening in the religious world here and abroad as we speak.

Keep up your faithful work....you have my utmost thanks.

I ping my Missouri Synod Lutheran family members and friends to your articles....and they, also, are very appreciative.

Leni/MinuteGal

6 posted on 10/02/2019 8:00:35 PM PDT by MinuteGal ( MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !....MAGA ! ! !)
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To: lightman
My mother is a retired UMC pastor in the Big Sky Conference. She told me that the bishop has gotten death threats--which is not very Christian.

Here in Northern Virginia, my senior pastor told us last Sunday that the UMC is almost certainly heading for a schism over the LGBTQUERTY issue at next year's General Conference. [And while this is going on, the Virginia Conference seems to have nothing to say about our governor basically endorsing infanticide.]

The other thing that fascinated me about the upcoming General Conference is how the overseas jurisdictions will have 20 or so more delegates than they did at the recent called General Conference--while the North American conferences have lost a similar number. The UMC is growing overseas--where traditional biblical values are preached.

7 posted on 10/02/2019 8:05:28 PM PDT by Lysandru
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To: lightman

If there is support of her in the pews, they can vote to leave. They could join another denomination or start their own.

The Fort Worth, Texas episcopal diocese voted by a two thirds margin to join the conservative African Episcopal church union a few years ago. A number of individual churches voted to change association, too, but Fort Worth was the only entire diocese.

If her members voted, they could choose to become liberal Lutheran, Episcopalian or something else.


8 posted on 10/02/2019 8:08:11 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: lightman
"Bishop". Sorry, no.

Women are not Biblically eligible.

(Sodom and Laodicea live here and now).

1 Timothy, Chapter 3

1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach;

3 Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous; 4 One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

5 (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

9 posted on 10/03/2019 12:31:45 AM PDT by Norski
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They are unlikely to do this; they undoubtedly want to split the church, forcing the “old guard” to leave, keeping the church property and the name.


10 posted on 10/03/2019 12:34:20 AM PDT by Norski
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To: lightman

Wow. This person isn’t even in the ballpark. They’re not even close to the ballpark.


11 posted on 10/03/2019 3:27:25 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: lightman
People who remain in the pews support her of course.
Distinct from the people who used to be in the pews.

The formal name for this logical fallacy is selection bias.

12 posted on 10/03/2019 5:30:23 AM PDT by Salman (The Democrat agenda in one word -- revenge.)
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To: lightman
Lesbian Lutheran Bishop:


13 posted on 10/03/2019 5:32:09 AM PDT by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: dead

Satan’s beaming proudly at one of his favorite children.


14 posted on 10/03/2019 5:34:46 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: lightman

Interesting how she defines “disagreement” with her views as “hate”.

How very “liberal” and “Tolerant” of her!


15 posted on 10/03/2019 6:35:57 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: dead

For which synod is she the bishop? I hope I haven’t been in one of those churches.


16 posted on 10/03/2019 6:54:21 AM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: Lysandru

QUERTY? QWERTY I understand.


17 posted on 10/03/2019 6:57:49 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Redleg Duke

Bingo!


18 posted on 10/03/2019 7:00:39 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Redleg Duke

Bingo!


19 posted on 10/03/2019 7:00:41 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: lightman

Your church cannot be a democracy.


20 posted on 10/03/2019 7:02:22 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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