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Methodists to Reinstate Defrocked
Minister
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Email Alert Message
for: May 1, 2005
Hello Again!
Today's Headline's:
MyWay
Apr 29, 12:15 PM
(ET)
By FOSTER KLUG
MyWay.Com
+++++ Methodists to
Reinstate Defrocked Minister +++++
LINTHICUM, Md. (AP) - The
United Methodist Church reversed itself
Friday, deciding to reinstate a lesbian minister who was
defrocked
after revealing her relationship with another woman.
A church panel voted 8 to
1 to set aside an earlier decision to defrock
Irene "Beth" Stroud for violating the church's ban on
openly gay clergy.
The Philadelphia minister
said she was relieved by the ruling and hopes
the church will become more inclusive to people
regardless of sexual
orientation.
After Stroud disclosed
the relationship to her congregation two years ago,
the church defrocked her, meaning that she could no
longer serve communion
or baptize anyone. She kept the title of associate
minister and worked in a lay
capacity at the First United Methodist Church of
Germantown in Philadelphia.
"The church is not free
to disregard the standards of justice and inclusiveness
that are preached by Jesus Christ ... and are a part of
church law," Stroud said
after church authorities read their decision at a hotel.
"The ruling gives us hope
that the United Methodist Church has the resources
to do justice," she said.
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Note: See my analysis below...
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PROPHETIC ANALYSIS
BY BRO STEF:
We are
told in scripture that there would be a falling away of
those
who
apparently believed in Christ. Are we seeing that
falling away
spoken
of in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 in the form of the
Presbyterians
and
the Methodists? I think we are.
It's a sad commentary when two of our nations corner
stone denominations
are
turning from God and allowing gay ministers among their
ranks.
Once
that corner is turned and that compromise is made,
anything
evil
becomes possible.
Where
does it all go from here? Only God knows. These two
denominations
are
treading on very dangerous ground indeed.
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"For Zion’s sake
I will not be
silent and for Jerusalem’s sake
I will not rest."- Isaiah 62.1
Until Next
Time, God Willing,
Bro Stef
Out... 
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Luke 21:5-36
25 "And there will be signs in the sun, in the moon, and
in the stars; and on the earth distress of nations, with perplexity,
the sea and the waves roaring; 26 men's hearts failing
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And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to
cease, and for the overspreading of abom-inations he shall make it
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