Pastor Gerald Sharon Resigns From Evangelical Church Over Biblical Position on Homosexuality
A former pastor at Saddleback Church resigns as pastor after he refused to agree to its biblical position on homosexuality, fearing it would alienate people in the LGBT community.
“Gerald was no longer able to state that marriage is defined between one man and one woman,” Williams said. “In order to arrive at such a place, there were many other areas of theology and scripture related to human sexuality, gender identification, marital and sexual orientation that Gerald was not able to agree with this... Continue Reading
SBC Repudiates Display of Confederate Flag
Messengers to the 2016 Southern Baptist Convention renounced display of the Confederate flag
“The Confederate battle flag resolution was another step in the convention’s effort to address its past actions regarding slavery and racism. The SBC, which began in 1845 in part in support of slaveholding missionaries, approved a resolution in 1995 repenting of racism and asking for forgiveness from African American Christians.” Messengers to the 2016... Continue Reading
Latvian Lutherans End Ordination Of Women Priests
The General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia has voted to end the ordination of women to the priesthood.
In 1975 the synod authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood. However, since his election in 1993 the Archbishop of Riga Jānis Vanags has declined to ordain women to the priesthood, arguing the experiment had not worked in Latvia. Archbishop Vanags…has argued that there is no warrant for women priests found in Scripture and... Continue Reading
Why WOULD Anyone Sing in Church These Days?
A quick trip down Google’s memory lane reveals that the internet has been talking about this regularly since at least 2012.
Do music that is meant to be sung, and in a way that encourages healthy, hearty singing. Most of the music churches are now attempting to sing is instrumentally-driven music in a vernacular style that was written for a solo artist recording. Replicating that style of music, with its syncopation, affected vocals, aimless melodies, and... Continue Reading
RCA General Synod: Marriage is A Covenant Between A Man and A Woman
The RCA General Synod 2016 adopted as constitutional the “Order for Christian Marriage” liturgy, which describes marriage as “a joyful covenanting between a man and a woman.”
Synod delegates called for a change to the Book of Church Order (BCO), mandating that consistories or governing bodies “shall assure that marriages in a church or congregation are between a man and a woman.” The change must be approved by two-thirds of RCA classes and ratified at General Synod 2017 before it is added... Continue Reading
United Methodists Sever Ties With Pro-Abortion Coalition
Delegates to the 2016 General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted 425-268 to disassociate two of its bodies from the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
In 2008, the General Conference, which meets every four years, rejected a similar proposal, 300-484. In 2012, voicing disapproval with a RCRC publication that described “aborting children as ‘God’s work’ or ‘holy work,’” the Church and Society committee approved a measure to withdraw from the RCRC, but the General Conference did not vote on the... Continue Reading
Greear Withdraws From Race, Gaines Wins SBC Presidency
J.D. Greear announced Wednesday he would withdraw from the race for president of the Southern Baptist Convention during the SBC's annual meeting in St. Louis.
Greear told the convention he prayed last night and believes “we need to leave St. Louis united.” Gaines said “there’s no way God is not doing something in all of this.” He said he has decided internally Tuesday night to withdraw but agreed to serve as president after a conversation with Greear. ST. LOUIS (BP)... Continue Reading
SBC Votes Today on Whether Millennial Reformed Theology Represents the Future
The election is a test of whether Southern Baptist pastors are leaning toward more Reformed theology tendencies or staying with leaders who tend to be critical of Reformed theology.
Slated for a vote to serve as president of the convention are J.D. Greear, pastor of the Summit Church in Durham, North Carolina, and Steve Gaines, who serves as senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis, Tennessee, one of the more historic parishes for Southern Baptists….Greear, 43, who is a strong Calvinist, represents the resurgence... Continue Reading
A ‘Father’ at 62
Being a father in the Presbyterian sense, at its most basic, means being an elder elder,
Being an ecclesiastical father is filled with frustrations and delights as well. But opportunities abound. Opportunities to step up. Opportunities to teach, exhort, admonish, encourage, challenge, contribute – all in keeping with the station of life and season of ministry in which the Lord has us. Sounds implausible, doesn’t it. A father at 62.... Continue Reading
Do Southern Baptists Have a Decline Problem?
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, continued its drop in baptisms, membership, and weekly attendance in 2015
Southern Baptists are less evangelistic,” acknowledged Trevin Wax last year, a popular Southern Baptist cultural commentator and managing editor of The Gospel Project. “There’s no way to prove or disprove this statement. But considering the drop in the SBC’s baptismal numbers, it seems clear that Southern Baptist outreach efforts are diminishing — either in effectiveness... Continue Reading
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