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2004-06-19 20:17 | User Profile
[url=http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/152004g.asp]'Rainbow-Colored' Communion Bread Surfaces at Methodist Gathering[/url]
By Jim Brown June 15, 2004
(AgapePress) - Evangelical students are outraged over displays of homosexual activism at the United Methodist Student Movement's leadership conference.
Hundreds of Methodist college students and campus ministers gathered at United Methodist Church-affiliated Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, in late May for "Student Forum 2004." The attendees took part in Bible studies, worship services, and community outreach, and also debated various resolutions. However, students like Ross Stark of Mississippi were disturbed by the large number of pro-homosexual measures that were discussed, as well as a communion service that included multicolored bread.
Stark, who contends the bread signified approval of homosexuality, says he was offended by use of the multicolored bread as well as by the fact that the communion service was used to make a political statement.
"It was the fact that they know very well that the rainbow has been taken as a pro-homosexual sign, and then they incorporated the different colors of bread with that," the 20-year-old student says.
Hendrix College chaplain Wayne Clark, who bought the bread, says there was no special significance to it. "There was no political agenda, there was no social agenda -- nothing at all was that," the chaplain says.
Stark says he is deeply concerned about the state of his lifelong denomination. "I live in Mississippi now and always have. Inside of Mississippi it doesn't trouble me; outside it does," he says. "I'm just hoping that maybe something as blatantly obvious as this will awaken some people and then we maybe can take a step in the right direction."
The young Methodist says he has contemplated leaving the UMC, but hopes that day will not come. The student forum was sponsored by the denomination's General Board of Higher Education and Ministry.
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Thanks to [url=http://littlegeneva.com/mt/index.html]Little Geneva[/url] for the heads-up...
2004-06-20 07:28 | User Profile
What did the Methodist church do about the pro-homosexual politics at the leadership conference? Nothing? What would Jesus do? Use words like "hypocrites" and "vipers"? Ask the activists how they will escape Hell? Tell them that He loves them just as they are?
We need to get the Bible back into church.
2004-06-20 10:03 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Texas Dissident][url=http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/6/152004g.asp]'Rainbow-Colored' Communion Bread Surfaces at Methodist Gathering[/url]
By Jim Brown June 15, 2004
(AgapePress) - Evangelical students are outraged over displays of homosexual activism at the United Methodist Student Movement's leadership conference. [/QUOTE]
You know, if I were a Methodist and this happened the person who did it would have recieved a good thumping. Its high time people stop putting up with this kind of sick blasphemy.
It should be clear to everybody that these perverts will not quit until they are stopped. And if someone thinks that taking physical action against such people is "un-Christian," then I suggest they read about Saint Nicholas who got thrown in jail for punching out a heretic. The next night God appeared in the dreams of the bishops who had him arrested and ordered them to immediately release Nicholas.
2004-06-20 23:28 | User Profile
This is another example of neocon corruption of Christianity. Liberals push this filth and the neocons sucker the conservatives into thinking that mounting a real resistance would be unchrist-like. If there's a table in a Christian meeting place pushing homosexuality. WWJD? He'd flip the table over and tell off the perverts.
Neocons want conservatives to defend the American Empire, not the American culture.
God doesn't love homosexuals.
2004-06-21 15:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]What did the Methodist church do about the pro-homosexual politics at the leadership conference? Nothing? What would Jesus do? Use words like "hypocrites" and "vipers"? Ask the activists how they will escape Hell? Tell them that He loves them just as they are? Unlikely that they would do much, as these views are pretty well established if not uniformly accepted, at the Church level itself. Methodists as one of the most liberal American denominations I'm sure are pretty close to Episcopals in accepting homosexuality, although I don't knowwhat their precise position on ordaning homosexuals is.>
We need to get the Bible back into church.
But don't you know? Biblical truths are culturally conditioned, as the libs say.
This is another example of neocon corruption of Christianity. Liberals push this filth and the neocons sucker the conservatives into thinking that mounting a real resistance would be unchrist-like.
Well with due respect, liberals and neo-liberals have been around a lot longer and are a lot more influential in the Methodist Church than neocons, who can justabout fill a phone booth in NYC.
If there's a table in a Christian meeting place pushing homosexuality. WWJD? He'd flip the table over and tell off the perverts.
Neocons want conservatives to defend the American Empire, not the American culture.
God doesn't love homosexuals.[/QUOTE] God still loves the sinners, but he certainly hates the sin.