“Millions of dollars spent on property lawsuits look increasingly like money badly spent, and still the coffers fill up with millions of dollars from terminally ignorant Episcopalians still bent on pouring their hard earned money into the institution.”
The Episcopal Church can now rightly claim that it has consecrated to the sacred order of bishops: drunken bishops, closeted and uncloseted gay and lesbian bishops, bullying bishops, bi-sexual bishops, adulterous bishops, theologically errant bishops, liberal and progressive bishops who are vaguely creedal, with a handful (literally you can count them on one hand), orthodox bishops.
It is a remarkable record of achievement brought about by the clouding and fudging of language that includes, “generous orthodoxy”, “inclusivity,” “diversity,” “progressivism,” “sacred spaces” and much more. It can be safely said that the Episcopal Church has gone where no Church has gone before, and, if history is proven out, will continue down this pathway invoking God’s love for absolutely everybody and on any given subject, including and especially, sexuality, perforce, and anything else it chooses to do or bless.
It is a Church without barriers in theology and morality…and to the episcopacy. “Sound teaching” as the Apostle Paul urged and advised, and sexuality within the biblical confines of man/woman in matrimony are not only not enforceable, but embraced as alternatives if not handicaps to a fuller, richer understanding of who God has become (in The Episcopal Church’s mind and resolutions), including the possibility that “He” is no longer even necessary even when talking about the Supreme Being of the universe. “Mother God” and “Jesus our Mother” now mocks the traditional understanding of the Trinity and Scripture, but is openly embraced by the Church’s Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.
In any other age or time, a Church such as this would have hung its head in shame, would have been called out as “Laodicean” or at the very least “Ichabod” and consigned to Hell. The Apostle John writes of the Church of Laodicea, “You have acquired wealth and do not need a thing. But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.” TEC is worth $4 billion on the books, but is losing people at the rate of 1,000 a week to other Anglican jurisdictions, Rome, Orthodox churches, the Ordinariate, death and disillusionment.
The Church of Sardis (Rev. 3: 1-6) is described as a church with a reputation of being alive, but is in fact dead, a perfect description of TEC.
In Amish terms, it would have been “shunned”; in evangelical language, declared heretical and apostate, and those who attended would have been told “come ye out from among them and be separate”, an admonition that was taken seriously enough by at least 100,000 Episcopalians resulting in the formation of the Anglican Church in North America.
The most recent outrage (and there have been many) of a drunken bishop killing a cyclist, then fleeing the scene of the crime and hiding behind a gated community so she wouldn’t have to face her accusers is just the ass end of a long line of episcopal outrage and filth dating back more than 40 years. In the case of Bishop Suffragan Heather Cook, a half empty whisky bottle and a marijuana bong have become her own personal Eucharist.
This latest outrage will only hasten the church’s demise, a demise now measured in double digit parish attendance with nearly half of all 6,700 parishes no longer able to afford a full time priest with 61 members on average. The average parishioner age is now in the mid 60’s, guaranteeing that the denomination will expire within a generation.
Is it any wonder that the denomination grows smaller and smaller even as it openly espouses pansexuality, abortion, Euthanasia and assisted suicide?
It is a record that would have the likes of an Augustine, Cranmer, Ryle, Newman, the Wesley Brothers, Luther, Calvin, to name abut a few, rolling over in their graves. That an Episcopal lesbian seminary professor could cry out, “Abortion is a blessing and our job is not done,” reaches down to the very bottom of a morally depraved church and those who lead it.
Many thought we had reached the bottom of the cesspool with the likes of Walter Righter, Jack Spong, Otis Charles, Gene Robinson and Mary Glasspool, but the Episcopal Church clearly keeps on finding new bottoms in the ecclesiastical tank of theological and moral sludge and outrage.
Millions of dollars spent on property lawsuits look increasingly like money badly spent, and still the coffers fill up with millions of dollars from terminally ignorant Episcopalians still bent on pouring their hard earned money into the institution with little knowledge that all they will get for their money is a plaque on a Columbarium and worse, churches they built and paid for sold for mosques and themselves eternally separated from God.
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