29 February 2020
A new study by LifeWay Research says that forty-seven percent — nearly half — of all Mainline Protestant pastors now support same-sex marriage. This is up 15 percent from ten years ago.
The same study shows that Evangelicals over the years have remained steady at 8 percent with no increase over the same time period.
According to the report at LifeWay, “Around a third (32%) say they see nothing wrong with civil unions between two people of the same gender. Almost two-thirds (63%) say they disagree, with a majority (54%) strongly disagreeing.”
The study aligns itself with the evidence that is persistent in mainline Protestant denominations — such as the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), the United Methodist Church, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA), all apostate denominations that ordain women and, in many cases, homosexuals.
While the United Methodist Church has been divided over the cause of same-sex marriage, the ELCA and PCUSA are both actively involved in the promotion of sodomy both in the world and in their religious institutions.
It comes as no surprise that these apostate denominations continue to increase their support for aberrant sexuality as they’ve already traded the truth of God’s Word for a lie. Now, they’ve been completely given over to the lusts of their hearts.
Alabama pastor shot wife at church, killed himself after she preached powerful message, friends say..............
29 February 2020
Prophetess Alisha Woodard (L) and her late husband,
Elder Ulysses Woodard, led the True Word of
Deliverance Church of God in Prichard, Alabama..
Pastor Derek Scott Gandy remembers how high in the spirit everyone was at the True Cornerstone Church in Mobile, Alabama, on Friday night after prophetess [?] Alisha Woodard was done preaching.
“She was the speaker that night and she did a fantastic job. The church was so animated and inspired. Everybody was high in the Holy Ghost,” Gandy told The Christian Post Wednesday. “We just had an incredible worship experience that night. It was just fire from Heaven.”
It was the second night of the 2020 Women of God Through Promise Conference at True Cornerstone Church and prophetess Woodard, described by Gandy and his wife, Kula, as a woman in her 20s who recently graduated from college, brought a powerful message.
That night, said Kula, Woodard preached from 2 Kings in the Bible about the story of Elisha the prophet and the Shunammite woman. Little did the prophetess know that at the end of the service that night she would be forced to wrestle with death after the “devil … showed up in a deadly way,” according to pastor Gandy.
The Mobile Police Department said in a statement that at approximately 11:23 p.m. on Friday, they responded to the church on Halls Mill Road after receiving a report about a person being shot. When they got there, they saw a woman on the ground who had been shot.
The suspect involved reportedly fled the scene as police arrived. He was pursued by authorities and subsequently returned to the church. As officers approached his vehicle, however, the suspect shot himself. His car then crashed into the church. He was pronounced dead at the scene while his wife was taken to a local hospital where she is recovering.
Pastor Gandy and Kula identified the couple as prophetess Woodard and her late husband, Elder Ulysses Woodard. They both led the True Word of Deliverance Church of God in Prichard, Alabama.
By Jim Fletcher - 28 February 2020
It always seems that seismic changes happen quickly. Sometimes that’s true. But historically, most changes of that magnitude occur only after decades of incremental change.
That is precisely what has happened to the American Church, as we see signs of apostasy everywhere. I wish I could write about something else, about the robust nature of the Church, but I see the opposite.
Today, we have radical ideologies emerging within Evangelicalism, including social justice and “progressive” policies that would please any totalitarian of the last century.
A few years ago I attended a Chicago conference co-hosted by Willow Creek Church and among the speakers was Cornell West, the radical professor. He whipped-up the student-dominated crowd with a frightening cocktail of Marxism and hatred of whites. The applause was consistent and loud.
How did this arrive in our churches? The rot has been here a very long time.
In 1961, in that idyllic Opie Taylor environment, the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board published a book by Ralph H. Elliott, the Message of Genesis. In it, Elliott made the case for Genesis (especially the Creation accounts) being some form of myth. He wrote:
“We must learn to think of the stories of Genesis—the Creation, the Fall, Noah’s ark, the Tower of Babel…in the same way we think of the parables of Jesus: they are profoundly symbolical (though not allegorical) stories, which aren’t to be taken as literally true…”
Wow! This was no Presbyterian or Episcopal priest trashing the historicity of Scripture. This was the heart of the conservative Christian movement.
This kind of garbage scholarship was meeting high school students and college-age students at the beginning of the crucial 60s. Remember, Hal Lindsey has told us that UC-Berkeley was already radicalized by the 1960’s, so the political and religious communities were being fed a steady diet of faulty worldview, infused with Marxism.
Elliott was a professor at the SBC’s Midwestern Seminary and was dismissed after a time, but nothing was done about the scores of like-minded professors infecting conservative seminaries. A trustee of the seminary actually wrote at the time that the trustees approved of the ghastly “Historical-Critical Method” but wanted to put a damper on any more publications like Elliott had produced.
Of course, no such damper occurred as the obvious instead happened: such Scripture-dishonoring attacks mushroomed in the subsequent decades.
Something to also keep in mind is a keen insight offered by my friend, Dr. G. Thomas Sharp. He told me once that if the “higher-critical” thinkers could relegate the Creation accounts of Genesis to myth, it was then a short step to undermining the rest of Genesis.
“Genesis 12-50 of course is the story of the birth of the Jewish people,” he said. “If Genesis 1-11 is myth, then people begin to believe the matters concerning the Jews are also myth.”
This then means that God’s land promises to the Jews are not valid, since they are merely part of Hebrew legend.
So…if we look about us today and wonder how we got to Andy Stanley’s attacks on the Bible, don’t think for a moment these ideas originated around the year 2000. No, they were much older than that.
The Bible tells us that in the last days the faith of many will disappear. We are seeing that in every way in 2020.
I no longer believe it is possible to “save the culture” with a wholesale return to the Bible, but rather this is a rescue operation. It is more important than ever that as individuals, we teach our children and grandchildren the truth of Scripture.
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