If we left the Baptist Union where could we go? (Epiphanies guidelines apply)

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  • [He was telling me that his own home church in Essex is the only Baptist Union church in the Eastern Region currently registered for same sex marriages, but our own church is well on the way to perhaps becoming the next one (to be voted on at next Church Meeting).
    You've been pipped at the post - Light of Life Church in Ormesby has just decided to register. Your church has been on a long journey, ever since the URC (GR's church is joint Baptist/URC) asked churches to discuss their views on Civil Partnerships in the run-up to General Assembly in 2012.

  • HezekiahHezekiah Deckhand, Styx Posts: 47
    The_Riv wrote: »
    And the sex war continues. If churches redirected the energy and resources they waste on human sexuality, I'd wager a long list of actual problems could be solved, or at least reduced significantly. Unfortunately, on that score they're, well, impotent.

    Amen to that.
  • HezekiahHezekiah Deckhand, Styx Posts: 47
    Thank you Matrix, for the update.

    Good news for my Church, but I understand that some will be disappointed by the outcome.

    Some people would always be disappointed, whichever way they went.
  • HezekiahHezekiah Deckhand, Styx Posts: 47
    Disappointed? More rendered furious. I don't directly have a dog in the fight, but churches believing they have the right to decide that some are more loved by God than others make me vomit.

    That is not what they are saying. Stop saying untruths.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited March 2024
    Hezekiah wrote: »
    Disappointed? More rendered furious. I don't directly have a dog in the fight, but churches believing they have the right to decide that some are more loved by God than others make me vomit.

    That is not what they are saying. Stop saying untruths.

    They may not be saying so directly, but it's what is implied. The Baptist Church is, of course, not alone in this.
  • On a point of order: there is technically no such thing as "the Baptist Church" as we are a connexion of independent churches. The recent Council ruling applies to nationally-accredited ministers; hence one could have the anomalous situation of a church deciding to register for Same-sex marriage but the Minister conducting the wedding not permitted to be in such a marriage themself.
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    hence one could have the anomalous situation of a church deciding to register for Same-sex marriage but the Minister conducting the wedding not permitted to be in such a marriage themself.

    Which is a piece of galloping theological and ecclesiastical nonsense worthy of the CofE.
  • Barnabas62Barnabas62 Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    Lynn Green, the current General Secretary of the BUGB and the first woman to hold that role, observed this way at the conference.

    “A polarising world needs a reconciling church”.

    Which of course includes the principle of reconciling, if possible, internal differences. Easier said than done.
  • On a point of order: there is technically no such thing as "the Baptist Church" as we are a connexion of independent churches. The recent Council ruling applies to nationally-accredited ministers; hence one could have the anomalous situation of a church deciding to register for Same-sex marriage but the Minister conducting the wedding not permitted to be in such a marriage themself.

    Yes. Sorry about that - I was using the term as a sort of shorthand, but I take your point.
  • No need to be sorry, we Baptists manage to confuse everyone (including ourselves).
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