refuse to follow the mandates of their national leadership?
In recent years, there has been a growing movement by local flocks to not follow the mandates of the national leadership, as regards controversial issues such as:
Gay Marriage;
Ordaining Openly Gay Pastors;
Ordaining Women; and
Acknowledging that perhaps the creation account may merely be that point when homophone man emerged.
In January, news reports showed a movement in the Methodist to confiscate church property of congregations that were not following leadership guidelines on these issues.
In November, many congregations of the Church of England refused to endorse the opinion of the Bishop that according to God's Teachings, as found in the Authorized Version [KJV], that babies born with deformities should not be allowed to live.
Shouldn't these congregations follow their leadership, or give up being a part of the faith?
2007-03-10
18:04:34
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