CBN News about Bishop Katharine Jeffererts Schori Statement

[gurneyhalleck1]

I was baptized an Episcopal in my youth but became atheist in my late teenage years. Right now, I’m quite happy I left it when I did.

Although I feel bad for all the orthodox Episcopals out there. This has to be a trying time for them.

I hear ya, Wolf. I was Episcopalian for about 7 years before I realized what they taught at a national level. My wife and I were chilled at their beliefs and ran for the hills. Our Anglican diocese here was the first entire diocese to leave the Episcopal Church. Bishop Schofield, maverick and man of God that he is, started much of the brave trailblazing that led to this new province. He’s a great man. And it was Queen Katherine that ran them out along with their liberal values.

I’m just sad to see the new province starting off on the wrong foot allowing dioceses to ordain women as priestesses if they so wish. It’s a sad adendum to a promising start…They were almost there: pro life constitution, determined to church-build and evangelize, opposed to gay marriage, cracking down on clerical divorce, and committed to orthodoxy…then…the liberal women’s ordination loophole…Mark my words, it WILL come back to haunt them. It is a great sin and such a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the priesthood.

 

[Byzantine_Wolf]

I’m just sad to see the new province starting off on the wrong foot allowing dioceses to ordain women as priestesses if they so wish. It’s a sad adendum to a promising start…They were almost there: pro life constitution, determined to church-build and evangelize, opposed to gay marriage, cracking down on clerical divorce, and committed to orthodoxy…then…the liberal women’s ordination loophole…Mark my words, it WILL come back to haunt them. It is a great sin and such a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the priesthood.

It’s like the fable of the camel’s nose. Let a little bit in, and soon you’re out of the tent.

 

[oneGODoneCHURCH]

Hey Scott,

Great name! Scott here, too. I agree with everything you said EXCEPT the mitre and vestments colors. Those are pretty dang rough colors, they need to go along with the lady who is wearing them!

And what is encouraging for me is seeing that the Episcopal Church is an AGING, tiring, old, declining, waning denomination that is dying on the vine. Add to that the mass exodus of Anglicans with a conscience who joined the new province, and they’re really a mess. Their purses are also being drained by suing everyone in North America over property. They’re not recruiting new parishoners, they’re older than the hills, they stand for nothing, and they’ll eventually go broke.

It just further demonstrates that the idea of “hey, let’s make our denomination open, let anyone abort, cavort, be in a gay marriage, stem cell themselves to death, cohabitate, heck, nothing’s evil anymore!” DOESN’T GROW A CHURCH. People who live a libertine, sinful life by and large don’t want a church and the few that do realize they’re only lying to themselves. And the rest of the hapless people who haven’t a clue who stick around because they don’t have the moral courage to stand up against sin have such small families due to selfishness that they don’t grow. Christ Church Plano was an Anglican church that broke off from the Episcopalians years ago after losing their parish in litgation if memory serves. This pastor of theirs, Roseberry, was conservative and traditional and very dynamic in his evangelism. He held services in living rooms and eventually they grew from like 50 people to thousands. They are now the LARGEST Anglican parish in the United States. They did it through prayer, tradition, evangelism, and holding to Anglican values, not selling their souls to the devil to get numbers.

Katherine Schiori is the greatest Catholic and Evangelical recruiting tool in years. Listening to one of her sermons with a critical and intelligent mind can have only one effect–get me out of here!!

Nice to meet you Scott. I would agree that those are not the colors I would place together for vestments and a miter, they are however the least of the problmes with that picture. It is really a shame what is going on with the Episcopals as here in my home town there is only one parish of them and I know a few of them for the most part a very conservative lot. they needs our prayers.

 

[Michael_Francis]

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