 The General Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) met in Orlando, Fla., this week and voted on a resolution that will embrace sexual orientation and gender identity as specially affirmed categories within the church.
According to a statement, the resolution also affirms the "faith, baptism and spiritual gifts of all Christians regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity" and states that neither is "grounds for exclusion from fellowship or service within the church." Williams told CP that the church allows openly gay individuals to serve in leadership roles, however, there are some churches within their council that "would have a problem with that." "Many Disciples of Christ have studied the scripture and faithfully prayed and discerned that homosexuality is a sin," said Williams. "There are also many Disciples who have studied the scripture and faithfully prayed and discerned and come to a different conclusion." The new resolution has been called an "embrace of sexual liberalism and of Gnosticism," by Mark Tooley, president of The Institute on Religion and Democracy, who finds the denomination's new decision deviates from biblical reasoning. "Historic Christian teaching rooted in scripture and universal church tradition affirms sex between husband and wife. It also of course affirms the concrete physical reality of maleness and femaleness," said Tooley to CP. "Gender identity is not selected or imagined but is God's gift. The Disciples' resolution rejects Christian teaching and natural law in favor of postmodern ideology about evolving gender identity and the moral equality of all sexual behaviors." Tooley also said the new resolution will "sideline" the church in addition to its declining membership from nearly 2 million in the 1960s to its current 600,000 members. "Liberal Protestants have long believed that they will win favor and popularity by abandoning biblical teaching and accommodating secular fads. But liberal Protestantism has been imploding globally for 50 years with no reversal in sight," said Tooley. "Liberal religion echoes secular culture but it rarely, if ever, wins respect. The Disciples are the fastest declining liberal denomination, and their latest resolution helps ensure their spiral sadly will continue," he added. "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."{2 Timothy 4:3-4}These false pastors at Legacy are thieves in the temple! "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are." {1 Corinthians 3:17}"Message to those who love this world and the things of this world and who sit themselves under a "PROSPERITY PREACHER" who is always talking about how to get more money: In order to continue serving the purpose of Satan, make sure you continue to give your monies to the false prophets so they can keep building bigger piles of sticks and bricks while refusing to build the body of Christ; by preaching the whole word of God and winning the lost for which Christ came and died. Keep funding their temporal temples and fattening the bellies of the deceivers who refuse to hear the cry of people in need that sit right under their lying noses every Sunday morning. If you want to serve Satan, there could be no more effective way to do so THAN THIS." I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest. {Revelation 3:15-18} Your darkness is great, your ignorance greater! For His Holy Name:
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