EPISCOPAL LEADERS PREPARE FOR HOMOSEXUALITY DEBATES

From the following story at Christian Post we have more on the increasingly aggressive, and highly divisive, GLBTQ lobby festering within the visible church:

Episcopal Church leaders are scheduled to meet in a private session next week with the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion. Members of the Episcopal House of Deputies are expected to address homosexuality issues and how LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) members are involved in The Episcopal Church during the meeting with Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams, according to the Episcopal News Service…

Leaders at this year’s convention, which takes place July 8-17 in Anaheim, Calif., will be considering resolutions that would allow the consecration of openly gay bishops. Some dioceses, or regional bodies, have asked the General Convention to repeal or retract resolution B033, which was approved in 2006. B033 calls for restraint in ordaining bishops “whose manner of life presents a challenge to the wider church,” mainly noncelibate homosexuals…

Episcopal head Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, however, told the Episcopal News Service that the she doesn’t think revisiting B033 will be helpful… “Far more productive, I think, to have the hard conversations involved in claiming our current position and identity,” said Jefferts Schori, who has expressed support for homosexual ordination as well as the blessing of same-sex unions…

In addition to homosexual ordination, the Episcopal General Convention will also be considering resolutions calling for the development of rites for blessing same-gender relationships. The Diocese of Massachusetts is further calling on the legislative body to amend references in the national church’s canon laws on marriage from “a man and a woman” to “two adults.” (Online source)

More and more mainstream evangelical denominations and churches are heading in this same direction so leaders are catching here a glimpse of their own future, so you had best pay close attention. The sad truth is that there’s a threatening same-sex storm growing, which is rapidly picking up speed through the embrace of corrupt Contemplative Spirituality/Mysticism within the alleged “Protestant” sectors of the visible church.

And this growing and angry storm, while currently just slightly off the coast of the mainstream evangelical community, is right now approaching hurricane force…

See also:

POPULAR EMERGING CHURCH WEBSITE THE OOZE SLITHERS OUT OF THE GLBTQ-AFFIRMING CLOSET

OXYMORONIC ‘HOMOSEXUAL CHRISTIANS’ FOCUS OF BARNA REPORT

MAINSTREAM EVANGELICALISM NOW ON THE RAPID SLIDE TO APOSTASY

THE NEW CHRISTIANS WITH CHRISTIANITY WORTH BELIEVING—NO SOLA SCRIPTURA: YES, WOMEN PASTORS AND QUEER CHRISTIANS

ROB BELL, PETER ROLLINS, AND QUEERMERGENT’S ADELE SAKLER

REV. MEGAN ROHRER ON GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Q&A FOR “GAY AFFIRMING” EMERGING CHURCH PASTOR JAY BAKKER