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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
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Response to Houston's question. I understand if someone thought gay pastors were in a far worse catagory than Trinitarianism.
I am not so sure I would have a problem renting facilities from anyone - nightclubs included, unless there is a concern that the church condones what happens there when they are not assembled.
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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
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We have to be careful how we present ourselves to the community.
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In that regard I think it would be easier for the community to understand meeting in a club... The gay pastor thing mixes the holy and the abominable...
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02-19-2013, 06:52 PM
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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
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In that regard I think it would be easier for the community to understand meeting in a club... The gay pastor thing mixes the holy and the abominable...
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I wouldn't rent a building from a group of snake handlers either. Eeesh! Misguided or not, that is just stupidity. 
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02-19-2013, 06:56 PM
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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
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I wouldn't rent a building from a group of snake handlers either. Eeesh! Misguided or not, that is just stupidity. |
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Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
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02-19-2013, 07:19 PM
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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
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I wouldn't rent a building from a group of snake handlers either. Eeesh! Misguided or not, that is just stupidity. |
Plus one wouldn't know if the handlers forgot to secure the box with the snakes in it!  
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02-19-2013, 07:21 PM
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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
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Plus one wouldn't know if the handlers forgot to secure the box with the snakes in it! |
More to the point - I couldn't imagine being in town and someone asking me where my church was located. That would be a huge issue for me.
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02-19-2013, 07:24 PM
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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
Mark 16:17-18 is pretty clear, no misguidance at all! I was raised in it and will always support it! But as for renting from the Lutherans, WHAT does it matter who they rent from? Prax made good points, Most congregations that rent don't really know the landlord, He may be a satanist that donates all of his money to fund the church of satan, he may be in the human trafficking trade on the side, he may even (gasp) be gay, At least the congregation has a good facility to meet in that provides the needs. the church I used to attend rented the local unitarian church and they have a wiccan circle, It wasnt about being associated, it was about God providing us a place that we could afford, that met our needs and during our time was used for HIS glory!
If I was a member of the congregation, I would PRAY that the Lord doesn't allow them to find another place to rent and that they have NO choice at all but to stay put where God has planted them!
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02-19-2013, 07:57 PM
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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
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More to the point - I couldn't imagine being in town and someone asking me where my church was located. That would be a huge issue for me.
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The problem is that they were using that same facility BEFORE this new pastor came.
I agree that being gay is sin in the eyes of the Lord. But if, as I've always been taught, there is only one way to be baptized, but the other church chooses to ignore that and baptize infants instead, isn't that also sin? So if sin is sin, then for them to worship in a building where they baptized differently would be just as wrong as it is for them to worship in a place where (during THEIR services!) the pastor is gay.
I could give you example after example where the Lutherans allow and do things that the Apostolics consider to be sin - not just the gay issue. But they worshiped there before this one issue came up.
It's not my church and I don't really care enough to make a big issue about it. I just wondered if I was the only one who saw the inconsistency in this? Thanks for your input, everyone. You've all given me much to think about 
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02-19-2013, 08:13 PM
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I would not approve of a gay pastor at all! I understand the gay struggle, but a position of pastor is a little much. Maybe this congregation Is rightfully concerned about association with such a church.
The snake handlers are merely taking scriptures out of context in their ignorance. They are sincere, as is the gay pastor. The difference is that the snake handlers are considered crazy, but the gay pastor is considered an abomination. There is more disdain in the Christian community for the gay pastor.
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02-19-2013, 08:22 PM
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Re: I feel like this is a double standard. What sa
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I would not approve of a gay pastor at all! I understand the gay struggle, but a position of pastor is a little much. Maybe this congregation Is rightfully concerned about association with such a church.
The snake handlers are merely taking scriptures out of context in their ignorance. They are sincere, as is the gay pastor. The difference is that the snake handlers are considered crazy, but the gay pastor is considered an abomination. There is more disdain in the Christian community for the gay pastor.
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I am highly offended by your comment! I am in no way at all Ignorant or Crazy!
I happen to be very well educated!
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