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Not Open & Affirming but F & W

Alan Gross

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So the question is: does he leave the UCC and start a new group - or should he stay and try to change the UCC official policy?

The way I see it?

"And I heard another voice from heaven,
saying, Come out of her, my people,

that ye be not partakers of her sins,
and that ye receive not of her plagues."
 

Walter

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So the question is: does he leave the UCC and start a new group - or should he stay and try to change the UCC official policy?

I watched bible believing Episcopalians try to stay with The Episcopal Church once the General Convention had made decisions binding on all diocese and parish churches. The National Church allowed them to continue under a 'conscious clause' for about fifteen years and then determined that anyone who did not sign on to the churches new teachings could not continue within TEC. The UCC is congregational in polity and maybe some churches are still bible believing but they are few and very far between. Most of the Disciples of Christ churches in our area are part of the UCC and all of them have lost their theological moorings long ago. The local UCC pastor and her lesbian wife neither believe in any of the basic Christian tenets that you and I do.
 

Walter

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And, I would add, it is HIGHLY unlikely that staying within the UCC is going to start a movement toward orthodox belief within the UCC. The seminaries training leadership within the UCC are extremely liberal and those graduating from those institutions would not be able to remain orthodox and also graduate. Notice how very few churches or pastors have signed on to this group of orthodox UCC churches. BTW, you would have to question what they consider 'orthodoxy'. A Disciples of Christ church not far from us decided to depart from the DoC not because it was 'lgbtqxyz+ affirming (they were all for that) but because the West Coast DoC (under the UCC umbrella) decided that Jesus Christ was 'not' the only way to obtain salvation.
 
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