[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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Amen to that.
Some people would always be disappointed, whichever way they went.
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.
Which is a piece of galloping theological and ecclesiastical nonsense worthy of the CofE.
“A polarising world needs a reconciling church”.
Which of course includes the principle of reconciling, if possible, internal differences. Easier said than done.
Yes. Sorry about that - I was using the term as a sort of shorthand, but I take your point.