They had only one. We have a whole herd of Golden Calfs.
I wonder if the hottest parts of Hell are reserved for churches that preach pop culture as a substitute for Scripture.
This whole transgender business–which must be weeded out, uprooted, cast into the abyss–would never have been possible without go-along-to-get-along churches. The Church of What’s Happening Now, as Flip Wilson used to say.
It has to stop happening. See Psalm 2 for further instructions.
Nobody home!
America’s second-largest Protestant denomination, the United Methodist Church, has lost thousands of churches whose members object to the UMC’s playing footsie with Organized Sodomy, the Christian Post reports (https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4198375/posts). The total has topped 7,000.
That includes 5,200 congregations this year alone. Several thousand of these have joined the Global Methodist Church, a conservative group that was only formed last year.
That’s a lot of congregations waving bye-bye. But somehow the UMC leadership isn’t getting the message. Blessing “same-sex unions” just doesn’t fly with Christians who take God’s law seriously.
But the UMC leadership is riddled with liberal churchmen and out-and-out pagans who want theirs to be a church of what’s happening now. They’ll keep doing it no matter how many congregations secede.
The true Church lives. If it needs new buildings, if it needs to fall back on house churches–well, they follow God’s word and their faith.
Flip Wilson’s Church of What’s Happening Now
I learned a new word yesterday–and me a writer and all!
“Re-interrogate.” As in the Bishops of the Church in Wales declaring that “the teachings of Scripture should therefore be re-interrogated” (https://anglicanmainstream.org/the-explanatory-memorandum-from-the-bishops-of-the-church-in-wales-a-response/)–to allow the church to bless same-sex “civil partnerships.”
Flip Wilson used to make a lot of people laugh with his “Church of What’s Happening Now.” In real life it’s not so funny.
Their reasoning, if you want to call it that, is that although the Bible does seem to favor marriage between one man and one woman, it also gives “tacit approval” to assorted forms of polygamy–and therefore the one man-one woman model need not be taken very seriously. And we are told that a “new social, scientific, and psychological understanding of sexuality” needs to be brought into play.
Like I said, “the Church of What’s Happening Now.”
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin…
