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Church under attack by alleged Pastor

Maybe the church ought to get out of the marrying and funeral business. There are so many outsiders, Gentiles, and Canaanites that want these serves to bless them like an incantation but otherwise probably do not darken the doors of the church. When they use these services, they then have the gall to dictate their non kosher and unbiblical ideologies to them.

In this case, nobody can tell me otherwise that this person frequented this church. Had he done so, he would have known their teaching and picked a "church" that was comfortable with that teaching and go to that instead.

This is a typical example where these people (family) are hankering for a fight. It is close-minded, underhanded, and downright jerkish to pick a church that one knows does not teach this way and try to change them for the same reason that homosexuals do not like being told what to do. Well, fine. Go somewhere that nobody will say anything. But to do what one hates to another is downright hypocritical.
 
I'm not so sure it's leaving as much as it is of being separated. Division can be confused with sifting.
 
Potluck said:
I'm not so sure it's leaving as much as it is of being separated. Division can be confused with sifting.
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Correct, probably a better way to look at it is that the UCC has left biblical teachings.
 
aLoneVoice said:
Potluck said:
I'm not so sure it's leaving as much as it is of being separated. Division can be confused with sifting.
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Correct, probably a better way to look at it is that the UCC has left biblical teachings.
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You are correct about the UCC. I belong to a country church out here that was UCC, but thanks be to God that they saw thru all this stuff and we voted out. People out here are more traditional, and we were on the evangelical side of the spectrum. There are ex-UCC members that formed the "evangelical association" and that's what we are part of now.
 
Oy. Well, first of all, I think the family were a bunch of maroons for having a video made that had 'inappropriate images' that would be shown in a CHURCH. THAT I find repugnant, whether it was heterosexual or homosexual. The only taste these people evidently have is in their mouth. I also would not have allowed any open mikes, where people can say anything they want.

Otherwise, minus any other tasteless events that were planned, I would have buried this guy from the church. But, it would have had to have been in decency and good order. The benefits of a liturgical church is that we don't allow any vaudeville acts. The funeral, or Burial Office is read, the officiating celebrant preaches the sermon---not a eulogy---and that's that.
 
This is an interesting story, and provides some interesting discussion.

What should the church have done? Did they do the right thing? Did they do the Biblical thing?

What are your thoughts?

Also, I would encourage reading the discussions at the blog site. Myself and some others have left comments.
 
Yeah ...it seems the church should have taken the upper hand from the get go and said "this is our conditions for the service, if you don't agree with our biblical stance then you are free to look elsewhere."

This is their basic right
 
Perhaps I'm misreading this...

The church that refused to hold the service...it was a UCC church? Or was it just the additional blog that was by a UCC Pastor?

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OK, I'm clearer now, I think. This church in Texas is fully within its rights to deny a service to anyone it deems necessary. They could've avoided it, however, by not agreeing to it in the first place. I think that it's shameful both of the family that pushed over the line and of the church that reneged on its promise, even if that promise was prematurely given. They all should've known better.

OH, BTW, the UCC has not left biblical teachings. It has 'left' biblical teachings. :D

If I didn't know y'all had 'right' biblical teachings (as opposed to correct ones :wink: ), I might be a bit offended.
 
aLoneVoice said:
Heavenbound983 said:
OH, BTW, the UCC has not left biblical teachings. It has 'left' biblical teachings. :D

If I didn't know y'all had 'right' biblical teachings (as opposed to correct ones :wink: ), I might be a bit offended.
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I guess the bible supports the killing of babies?

http://www.biblicalwitness.org/nineteen ... main_c.htm
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Goodness sakes, Lone, do you REALLY want to bring in the whole "when does life start/when does humanity start/abortions good or bad/etc debate into this thread? I personally think it's a bad thing to do. I could take any of my pet issues and say, "Oh, yeah? Well, does the bible support X? Huh? Huh?"

Let's stay on track, please.
 
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