[CS-FSLUG] OT: PC(USA) okay with 'gay' clergy

[davidm at hisfeet.net]

Your quite right, Fred.  But then you knew that:)

> On 05/14/2011 06:57 PM, davidm at hisfeet.net wrote:
>> In Nogales years ago I taught an adult SS class in a Baptist "Ch". A
>> Pentecostal lady invited me to a house meeting of Saved Roman Catholic
>> people.  They asked me to come on Thursday nights and teach them from
>> the
>> Bible, so I was teaching two adult classes every week. I wasn't (and am
>> not) a registered member in either cult, Nor do I agree with much of
>> their
>> doctrine, but They both accepted me as a teacher of the word, which
>> expectation I desire to fulfill. And in both groups there were (and are)
>> sincere men and women who know the Lord and want to know and follow the
>> word. In both there is confusion on some important points of doctrine,
>> but
>> one very important doctrine of scripture is that you are not saved by
>> right doctrine, but rather by grace through faith in the Savior.
>>
>> One day I mentioned the Thursday night home meeting to one of the ladies
>> in the Sunday morning meeting, and she was really quite horrified that I
>> would fellowship with "catholics".  She quoted 2Cor.6:17 to me in a
>> questioning sort of way.  I replied that if I were to apply that verse
>> in
>> the way that she wanted me to apply it, I wouldn't have fellowhip with
>> the
>> Baptist people either.
>>
>> Although some of the various cults and denominations teach more (or
>> less)
>> of the basic truths of the Bible than others I don't see a huge
>> difference. They are all organised along human, anti-biblical lines.
>> They
>> are all partakers of the clerical/laity system that Jesus hates, and
>> intent upon building their own system rather than the Church that jesus
>> refers to in Mathew 16:18.
>>
>> I want no part of their system, but I want all I can get of the
>> fellowship
>> of those among them who truly trust in Christ.  I need their ministry,
>> and
>> they need mine, and yours.
>
> It is the organized church, meaning the various denominations with their
> conventions that have provided the structure for those who wish to water
> down, change, or destroy our Lord's word. True, today not all of the
> damage is done by those organizations, as we all know of examples of
> those outside the mainstream who are driven by other motives, like money.
>
> Fred
>
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