“I am grateful that very significant restraint has been shown by people who might want to see movement toward the blessing of same sex couples, and also by those who are still seeking clarity in their position. In my view, unfortunately, the GAFCON board has not shown similar restraint as we wait for that opportunity for discussion and decision making, with Monday’s announcement ramping up the tensions among us.
Read moreThere was another reminder this past week when GAFCON Australia outlined a plan to support Anglicans who leave the Anglican Church of Australia (ACA) over doctrinal revision which overturns the plain teaching of Scripture.
Read more"As part of an evolving collaborative partnership between TryTank Experimental Laboratory and The FaithX Project, I am experimenting for an Episcopal Pulse proof-of-concept experiment," he told reporters at the church's headquarters in New York City.
Read moreNoll takes the lid off the man and brings his life to us with its ups and downs, his multiple "retirements" and God's continual pull on his life through the peregrinations of The Episcopal Church.
Read more"Church growth was stagnant before Covid. Nothing much was working and not much is going to work unless the church changes how it does mission. The only measure for success is multiplication. Stagnation is failure," they say.
"What is needed is a paradigm shift and there's no alternative. We need to understand the new landscape and do what's needed to be fruitful. Do what God is doing. Not what that feels comfortable."
Read moreInclusion and diversity are words without substance. They are devoid of meaning. Inclusion means to include people who agree with you about sexuality, and diversity means nothing at all.
Read more"I'm not sure we will ever get over our need to apologize to homosexuals for our being homophobic, even when they start indoctrinating our children with their beliefs and our children contract AIDS and die. It's the least we can do to avoid further offense. Sacrificing a few children might be necessary," he said.
Read more"I feel like the best way to walk in integrity now is to step aside as this process moves forward and as efforts are made to serve any survivors of abuse." Ruch said that ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach had granted his request.
Read moreTake the word inclusion. The religious left has made it to include unbiblical sexual behaviors. As a matter of fact, the word itself cannot be found in the NT.
Read moreHis model, of course is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up in South Africa following the end of apartheid in 1995 to bear witness to, record, and in some cases grant amnesty to the perpetrators of crimes relating to human rights violations, as well as offering reparation and rehabilitation to the victims. Of course, it was mainly a Black and White issue. Whites were forced to confront their racism and in doing so let healing begin.
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