LESBIAN METHODIST PASTOR BLESSED AS OK BEFORE GOD
J. Grant Swank, Jr.
Apostasy continues.
It’s the church founded upon the preaching and teaching of holiness itinerant evangelist and Anglican priest, John Wesley. The United Methodist Church states this Friday that the lesbian pastor can now consider herself blessed by God in her ministry throughout that particular Protestant denomination.
Previously Irene "Beth" Stroud had been defrocked because of being a practicing homosexual. Now she’s no longer defrocked but elevated to esteemed pastor of the flock.The United Methodist Church went public today in its release to the media. "’An appeals committee has reversed a clergy court verdict in the case of Irene Elizabeth Stroud,’" the statement read according to Reuters News.
The vote was 8 to 1 in favor of Pastor Stroud’s lifestyle being compatible with Christian ministry and witness. Of course, that vote is a further sign of apostasy within the church worldwide. There is growing a disregard for the divine revelation in favor of relativism in moral teachings.
Instead of accepting the historic understanding that the Bible is the eternal Word, mortals today are writing their own religion and labeling it "Christianity."
That was seen within Roman Catholicism particularly during the last presidential campaign as John F. Kerry received the sacrament of communion while endorsing issues contrary to Scripture. There were those so-called Catholic clergy and laity who publicly cheered the Kerrys as they received the sacramental elements during a convening of worship, particularly when receiving the sacrament at the sanctuary near their Boston dwelling.
Protestantism is having its own heyday of obstinacy concerning Christian doctrinal disregard. The mainline denominations championing practicing homosexual lifestyles as God-blessed include the Episcopal Church of America, United Church of Christ (Congregational), Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and Unitarian-Universalist Society.
Now this evil intrusion has taken hold within the United Methodist Church, though the annual conference last year opposed the denomination taking such a stand.
"A lesbian Methodist minister defrocked last year for openly admitting to living with another woman has won her appeal against the church's decision, the United Methodist Church said on Friday.
"A statement on the church's Web site said a committee hearing the appeal by Elizabeth Stroud in Baltimore reversed the ecclesiastical court's December decision that stripped her of her credentials as a minister at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Philadelphia."
FOOTNOTE:
HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .
"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."
I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
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Apostasy continues.
It’s the church founded upon the preaching and teaching of holiness itinerant evangelist and Anglican priest, John Wesley. The United Methodist Church states this Friday that the lesbian pastor can now consider herself blessed by God in her ministry throughout that particular Protestant denomination.
Previously Irene "Beth" Stroud had been defrocked because of being a practicing homosexual. Now she’s no longer defrocked but elevated to esteemed pastor of the flock.The United Methodist Church went public today in its release to the media. "’An appeals committee has reversed a clergy court verdict in the case of Irene Elizabeth Stroud,’" the statement read according to Reuters News.
The vote was 8 to 1 in favor of Pastor Stroud’s lifestyle being compatible with Christian ministry and witness. Of course, that vote is a further sign of apostasy within the church worldwide. There is growing a disregard for the divine revelation in favor of relativism in moral teachings.
Instead of accepting the historic understanding that the Bible is the eternal Word, mortals today are writing their own religion and labeling it "Christianity."
That was seen within Roman Catholicism particularly during the last presidential campaign as John F. Kerry received the sacrament of communion while endorsing issues contrary to Scripture. There were those so-called Catholic clergy and laity who publicly cheered the Kerrys as they received the sacramental elements during a convening of worship, particularly when receiving the sacrament at the sanctuary near their Boston dwelling.
Protestantism is having its own heyday of obstinacy concerning Christian doctrinal disregard. The mainline denominations championing practicing homosexual lifestyles as God-blessed include the Episcopal Church of America, United Church of Christ (Congregational), Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and Unitarian-Universalist Society.
Now this evil intrusion has taken hold within the United Methodist Church, though the annual conference last year opposed the denomination taking such a stand.
"A lesbian Methodist minister defrocked last year for openly admitting to living with another woman has won her appeal against the church's decision, the United Methodist Church said on Friday.
"A statement on the church's Web site said a committee hearing the appeal by Elizabeth Stroud in Baltimore reversed the ecclesiastical court's December decision that stripped her of her credentials as a minister at the First United Methodist Church of Germantown, Philadelphia."
FOOTNOTE:
HOMOSEXUAL PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE
Leviticus 18:22: "You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female; it is an abomination."
Leviticus 20:13: "If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them."
Romans 1:18-32: "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. . .For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools. . .
"Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, that their bodies might be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. . .
"For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire towards one another, men with men committed indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
"God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice. . .without understanding. . . and, although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them."
I Corinthians 6:9: "Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived, neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God."
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