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Churches That Have Bent The Knee To Baal/Satan May 21, 2019 16:46:27 GMT

Post by Remnant Believer on May 21, 2019 16:46:27 GMT

CHARISMA NEWS

"First Baptist of Greenville is now ordaining gay, transgender ministers.

www.charismanews.com/us/51020-first-baptist-church-to-ordain-gay-transgender-ministers

A former Southern Baptist Church has decided all are welcomed in their pulpit, going so far as to ordain gay and transgender ministers.

First Baptist of Greenville, South Carolina—the church home of the first Southern Baptist Convention president—has taken a bold move in "embracing the complexities of gender identity."

"What I heard was, 'We need to do the right thing, regardless of what anybody thinks or says about us,'" Senior Pastor Jim Dant tells Greenville Online. "There were a few people who said, 'Are they going to start calling us the gay church in town?'"

After a six-month exploratory time, Greenville asked their members to affirm the acceptance of same-sex couples. According to Greenville Online, those who didn't affirm the church's decision still remained in the congregation.

In moving forward, the church ministers can perform same-sex unions and ordain any person, regardless of sexual orientation and lifestyle, to serve in a leadership role.

Greenville split from the SBC in the early 1990s, and is now a member of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Before leaving the original denomination, however, Greenville was home to William Bullein Johnson. Johnson not only served as a minister at Greenville, but inaugural president of the Southern Baptist Convention.

On their Facebook page, Greenville received several positive comments about their move.

"Thank you FBC Greenville. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8," one commenter wrote.

Another: "One day very soon, the Southern Baptist Convention will find themselves marooned on a bigoted island of their own making, while the civilized world of sound, modern biblical exegesis goes on around them."

The SBC, however, has no plans of the sort. President Ronnie Floyd told the Christian Examiner that the SBC stands by their biblical definition of marriage, and are in prayer for Greenville.

"We pray that this church will one day return to be biblically driven in their belief about marriage and family, rather than culturally driven as they have testified in the reported story." "

Last Edit: Oct 11, 2019 17:53:30 GMT by Remnant Believer

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Churches That Have Bent The Knee To Baal/Satan May 21, 2019 16:49:15 GMT

Post by Remnant Believer on May 21, 2019 16:49:15 GMT

Baptist church votes to OK gay marriage

News

Bob Allen | January 14, 2016

baptistnews.com/article/baptist-church-votes-to-ok-gay-marriage/

By Bob Allen

A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship congregation in Tennessee voted Jan. 10 to marry same-sex couples.

First Baptist Church in Memphis capped a three-month discernment process by adopting a policy extending “privileges afforded to any follower of Christ” without discrimination based on factors including sexual orientation.

The policy enumerates specific but privileges of “baptism, membership, leadership, ordination and marriage.”

David Breckenridge, pastor of the historic congregation since 2008, said the essence of the action was to clarify what members of First Baptist mean by their slogan, “All are welcome, no exceptions.”

“At FBC Memphis all followers of Christ will have equal access to all areas of church life and practice,” Breckenridge said.

Founded in frontier Memphis in 1839, First Baptist Church never lost its pioneering spirit. It was the first Southern Baptist church in Memphis to allow an African-American family to join in the early 1970s.

The congregation began ordaining women as deacons in the 1990s and in 2000 ordained its first woman minister, longtime church member Carol McCall Richardson, who went on to serve as associate pastor until her retirement in 2012.

The church has long included members who are openly gay and two years ago ordained a gay deacon.

It was one of the churches in the area to part ways with the Southern Baptist Convention over disagreement with policies such as the convention’s membership ban on churches which “act to affirm, approve or endorse homosexual behavior.”

Because of those differences, First Baptist Church’s primary affiliation today is the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, an 1,800-church group formed in 1991.

Based in Decatur, Ga., the CBF includes congregations that come down on both sides of the LGBT-inclusion debate. Recently a number of CBF-friendly churches have publicly moved toward a more welcoming stance.

First Baptist Church in Greenville, S.C., passed a resolution in May to no longer discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. The church subsequently withdrew from the South Carolina Baptist Convention at the convention’s request.

A second CBF church in South Carolina was booted from the state convention in November after its pastor performed a same-sex wedding on his own time with permission from the church deacons. The SBC Executive Committee is expected to formally withdraw fellowship from Augusta Heights Baptist Church in Greenville, S.C., at its upcoming meeting Feb. 22-23 in Nashville, Tenn.

In June the Executive Committee ousted Heights Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala., after the pastor there said from the pulpit he does not believe the Bible condemns “adult, loving, monogamous, same-sex relationships” and advised church leaders he would be open to wed same-sex couples if asked.

Last Edit: May 22, 2019 14:42:58 GMT by Remnant Believer

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Churches That Have Bent The Knee To Baal/Satan May 21, 2019 16:52:14 GMT

Post by Remnant Believer on May 21, 2019 16:52:14 GMT

Posted: Jan. 10, 2016

First Baptist Church first worshiped at this location on Dec. 2, 1951.

David Breckenridge, pastor, First Baptist Church of Memphis, Poplar and East Parkway

The Commercial Appeal

First Baptist Church of Memphis votes to OK gay marriage, ordination

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By David Waters of The Commercial Appeal

Members of historic First Baptist Church of Memphis approved a resolution Sunday that would allow gay marriage and ordination.

The vote, taken Sunday after the worship service, wasn't a big surprise. The church at Poplar and East Parkway baptized an openly gay man in 2001. Two years ago, the congregation voted overwhelmingly to ordain its first gay deacons.

"This morning continues the tradition at FBCMemphis of applying our theology and faith to the issues and needs of our times as a church where all are welcome," said Rev. David Breckenridge, senior pastor since 2008.

"Our church has a long history of being a progressive congregation where matters of social equality and justice are concerned."

The 175-year-old congregation was among the first historically Southern Baptist churches to welcome African-Americans in the 1970s.

The congregation began ordaining women as deacons and ministers in the late 1990s.

First Baptist was among the first and largest Baptist churches in the region to part ways with the Southern Baptist Convention, and the local Shelby Baptist Association, and affiliate with the more moderate Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

The SBC excludes from its fellowship churches that "act to affirm, approve or endorse homosexual behavior." The CBF hasn't taken an official position on gay marriage or ordination, but it bans the hiring of gay staff members and missionaries.

"Historically, the CBF has allowed individual congregations to make up their own minds about these matters, and I don't expect that to change," Breckenridge said.

About 70 percent of the 133 who voted Sunday favored the motion, which had been approved by the church's board of deacons in November.

"This isn't a vote about the kind of church we want to be in the future, it's a vote about who we are now," said David Richardson, deacon board president and a fourth-generation member.

The motion reads:

"As Christ's church, First Baptist Memphis is called to minister equally to all persons, extending to them the privileges afforded to any follower of Christ, including, but not limited to, baptism, membership, leadership, ordination, and marriage and will not discriminate based on race, gender, age, marital status, or sexual orientation."

Last Edit: May 22, 2019 14:37:06 GMT by Remnant Believer

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Churches That Have Bent The Knee To Baal/Satan May 21, 2019 17:33:13 GMT

Post by Remnant Believer on May 21, 2019 17:33:13 GMT

www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/baptist-church-in-dallas-votes-to-accept-lgbt-members/287-351572451

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Baptist church in Dallas votes to accept LGBT members

DALLAS – Wilshire Baptist Church has voted to grant gays and lesbians full membership to the church, which would allow them to be considered for leadership positions, and grant same sex marriages.

"The reasons that have been used for why people should vote ‘no' are the same reasons that were used for - why divorced people should not be allowed to be in the church, why blacks and whites should not be allowed to be married, why women should not be pastors. It just, in my view, rings hollow.” said Boland.

But some members who opposed the vote and asked not to have their names used, said their opposition is based on what they have been taught.

Pastor Mason said, "Everyone who disagrees with us does not hate gay people. They just have a different way of understanding what are the boundaries that a church ought to exercise in its love and acceptance of all people."

The church has about 1,600 active members.

Since its first service 65-years ago, Wilshire Baptist has always considered itself progressive. In 1991, it ordained women.

Copyright 2016 WFAA

Author: Jason Whitely, Marcus Moore

Published: 7:34 AM CST November 15, 2016

Updated: 7:34 AM CST November 15, 2016

DALLAS – Wilshire Baptist Church has voted to grant gays and lesbians full membership to the church, which would allow them to be considered for leadership positions, and grant same sex marriages.

The resolution passed by a 61 percent majority in a final vote which was released on Monday afternoon.

"We want to normalize life as quickly as possible for LGBT folk. And this is not a one-issue church. It's a church and we're simply saying the Gospel is open to all and closed to none,” said Senior Pastor George Mason said of the congregational vote.

Of the 948 ballots cast, 577 voted in favor, 367 were against it, and four people abstained.

This issue first arose a couple years ago, said Mason.

"We had a gay man in our church who kept being nominated to be ordained as a Deacon - year in and year out," he explained.

But church bylaws prevented it.

In addition, Pastor Mason said, the congregation has young people who have recently come out as gay and lesbian, not to mention the struggle the church has had with how to handle the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing same sex marriage.

The congregation’s vote concluded 14 months of study in which members interpreted scripture, re-read bylaws, and considered consequences.

Wilshire Baptist, located on Abrams Rd. near Mockingbird Ln. in northeast Dallas, has already lost some membership because of it, said Associate Pastor Mark Wingfield.

“We've lost more than a few over the 14 months of the study,” he explained. “Merely studying it, people have walked away.”

Texas Baptists, formerly known as the Baptist General Convention of Texas, has threatened to cut ties with the Dallas congregation, as well. It explained in a statement to News 8:

“This is a painful time for Texas Baptists. We have deep respect and appreciation for Wilshire Baptist Church. While Texas Baptists are loving, respectful and welcoming to all people, we have a longstanding and often reaffirmed biblical position on human sexuality. As in the past, when a church chooses a position outside of the BGCT position, that church effectively withdraws from harmonious cooperation. The BGCT values the autonomy of the local church and the harmony which is vital to the Convention’s purpose of fostering cooperative missions and ministries.”

But each Baptist church is autonomous. Separating from the state convention affects mission work, not ministry. And Wilshire will not lose the Baptist name.

"Because of the position we have now taken, they don't want to receive our money for the hunger offering. I think it is astonishing to think the Baptist General Convention of Texas would turn away our direct contribution of hunger offering money because they disagree with us on the inclusion of persons who identify in the LGBT community,” said Wingfield.

In response to Texas Baptists, Pastor Mason said: "They're good people and we value them and their friendship across time but we disagree. We don't believe a state convention actually has a theological position it can enforce upon its churches. They really need to bring this conversation to their executive board. There is no automatic dismissal that takes place. We believe there is a due process that should be followed."

Mason and Wingfield said there are other Baptist churches in Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin which have already made efforts to include LGBT members.

"Our church knows that there are consequences of our decision," Mason said. "We think there will be many positive consequences for being able to say to the LGBT community that they are welcome here fully, in Christ."

The resolution on the church's website reads:
"...would permit all members to participate in congregational life on the same basis as any other church member regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. This affirms the ability of the church’s committees and lay and staff governance structures to consider all members for leadership, ordination, baby dedication and marriage based upon individual merit and the discernment of those duly elected to governance positions."

"This is not an easy decision. I mean, this is cutting to the core of very strong beliefs that people have on both sides," said Casey Boland, a 10-year member of this congregation.

Last Edit: May 22, 2019 14:41:19 GMT by Remnant Believer

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Churches That Have Bent The Knee To Baal/Satan May 22, 2019 15:10:45 GMT

Post by Remnant Believer on May 22, 2019 15:10:45 GMT

Gay couple will pastor historic church in Washington
January 9, 2017 Lauren Markoe

Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D.C on April 19, 2006. RNS photo by Chris Rossi

WASHINGTON (RNS) Calvary Baptist Church, a progressive Baptist landmark in the heart of downtown Washington, has named a gay couple as co-pastors.

Sally Sarratt and Maria Swearingen were presented to the congregation during worship services Sunday (Jan. 8) and are set to begin their new jobs on Feb. 26.

A spokeswoman for the congregation said she didn’t know whether a gay couple leading a church was a first for Baptists.

“We look for the best people in the world and that’s who they were,” said Carol Blythe. “We’re very excited.”

Co-pastors Maria Swearingen, left,

and Sally Sarratt in front of the

Burrall windows in the Palacios

Chapel of Calvary Baptist Church

in Dec. 2016.

Photo courtesy of Sandra Auman

via Calvary Baptist Church

The 155-year-old church severed ties with the Southern Baptist Convention in 2012: It found itself at loggerheads with the group on several issues, including the SBC’s stance against homosexuality. Calvary Baptist still affiliates with American Baptist Churches USA, the Alliance of Baptists, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the District of Columbia Baptist Convention.

American Baptist Churches USA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Sarratt and Swearingen come to Calvary from Greenville, S.C., where Sarratt has been serving as associate chaplain for behavioral health in the Greenville Health System and Swearingen as associate chaplain at Furman

University, according to a news release from the church.

“We have found it so easy to fall in love with Calvary and its longstanding commitment to be a voice of justice and compassion for those who perpetually find the wholeness of their humanity disregarded and maligned,” the couple said to the congregation Sunday, according to the church.

Sarratt has also been filling the role of part-time associate minister at Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

The women met in the First Baptist Church of Greenville, and were both ordained there after it adopted and implemented a nondiscrimination policy in 2015.

Sarratt, who holds an MBA from the University of Virginia, left the corporate world after she felt called to ministry and obtained her master’s in theological studies from Emory University.

Swearingen, who is fluent in English and Spanish, earned a Master of Divinity from Duke Divinity School, where she won an award for her preaching.

In 2014, after the Supreme Court legalized marriage for gay couples, and the court denied South Carolina’s attempt at a stay, Sarratt told The Greenville News that the couple knew many who “chose sexual identity over a life of faith,” but that there is no need to sacrifice either.

Butler, Calvary’s previous senior minister, left to serve in the same position at New York’s The Riverside Church in 2014.

Calvary Baptist was founded by abolitionists who broke away from another Baptist church where congregants had refused to pray for Union soldiers during the Civil War.

Co-pastoring is a growing trend in U.S. houses of worship, with many churches and couples finding that sharing the often emotionally heavy workload can benefit both the clergy and the congregants.

Last Edit: May 22, 2019 15:38:30 GMT by Remnant Believer

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Churches That Have Bent The Knee To Baal/Satan May 22, 2019 19:04:33 GMT

Post by Remnant Believer on May 22, 2019 19:04:33 GMT

May 21, 2019 16:46:27 GMT Remnant Believer said:

CHARISMA NEWS

"First Baptist of Greenville is now ordaining gay, transgender ministers.

www.charismanews.com/us/51020-first-baptist-church-to-ordain-gay-transgender-ministers

There are a few very important things to observe in all of these News Articles.

These Churches claim to be "progressive" and had long before already handed women roles as "Pastors", and so forth.

Nowhere in The Holy Bible is a woman given authority to "Pastor". (Scripture Passages will be edited in later, for the sake of getting other critical material in.

There are dozens of similar News Stories, and I am firmly convinced that it is no coincidence that this News Article came up first.

In this Post, we will identify some other things that are on this "Religious News" website featured with and along side this article.

This photo advertisement is posted at the top left, featuring a lesbien with a man's hairstyle.

This photo of false teacher and "Pastor" Beth Moore is also featured on the website along side the News Article with the caption: "Beth Moore challenges SBC Policy, Says Women Should Preach in Church".

However, these things, as disturbing as they are, and without decreasing or devaluing the antichrist impact that it has within the Churches, as they are the direct result of doctrines of devils, doctrines that are lies and are opposite and antichrist of what is written in The Holy Bible concerning these matters, but the other "pictures" on the website are even more disturbing, and tend to go unnoticed by the averaged viewer, who has no clue that witchcraft is fully involved.

This is the single most evil Satanic image on the website: (Take Note that it is the cover photo for a featured advertised website targeted at Senior Citizens) though the Satanic image is used to afflict witchcraft upon all that view it). The related quotes are italicized:

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"Offers and articles from the Web

Seniors Cheating The "Natural Laws" of Human Lifespan Share These 4 Weird Signs"

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To the average person, the above reference picture or photo may appear to be that there is nothing Satanic about it at all, however, pun intended, 'there is much more than what meets the eye'.

If you, our guests/visitors/members reading this, has any problem seeing the subliminal, simply enlarge it, using any photo software, such as "Paint" that comes with your Windows.

First of all, the image depicts the blasphemous "all-seeing eye", and surrounding the pupil is the Occult symbol for Satan; this is more commonly referred to as the "swirl". Put the two symbols together, you have the so-called "all-seeing-eye" of Lucifer who is Satan. This is antichrist, as it is mockery of The True and Living Lord God Almighty, Who alone is Omnipresent, Omniscient, and is able to see and to hear all things, including the thoughts of men.

More on this topic will be addressed much more in-depth at a later time, as it will be used for an up and coming article; "The Queering of the Nations", as the world is become likened unto Sodom and Gomorrah.

In the meantime, that's not all .... and this will also blow your mind, if you are not aware of how subliminal imagery is used to bewitch and beguile the minds of men, women, and sadly, but yes indeed, children, as the making and the use of the images is for the purpose of targeting the masses; Christian Nations with witchcraft, and it is witchcraft.

This is from another "Offer and "article": (Again, the related quotes are italicized):

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"Offers and articles from the Web

Bad News About Metformin"

Website Link

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The above image is subliminal of genetalia.

When the website is visited, there are several more sexual oriented subliminals. Now, speaking with you, it is all to easy to laugh or giggle at these images, but I am telling you that these are nothing to laugh at as they are being used to target men, women, and children; it is witchcraft, and these are used in conjunction with Disney Movies, of which used all sorts and manner of subliminals dealing with sex organs; body swapping; possession, etc., (And yes, we can prove all of these things if this is your first time being made aware of this) .... as they are again, propagating doctrines of devils which are the opposite and antichrist of what is written in The Holy Bible, concerning not looking upon another person's nakedness (Scriptures will be edited in soon) not practicing fornication, not committing adultery, not practicing beastiality, and yes, those types of subliminals are also propagated in Disney Movies; and last but not least, the issue of homosexuality and so-called "transgenderism" of which is demonstrative of flesh corrupting itself.

Here are a few more copies of the subliminal pictures from the website. Check out the website for yourself to confirm, as seeing is believing, and understand that this is reality of the masses being deceived by witchcraft, and this is SMOKING GUN EVIDENCE THAT YOU, ME, OUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, NEIGHBORS, PASTORS, CHURCH MEMBERS ARE ALL BEING TARGETED AND WE NEED TO SOUND THE ALARMS TO WARN EVERYONE!! IN THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, DO NOT BE DECEIVED!!

Obviously, this is the male genetalia in the first photo, the second is the buttocks, the third representing the vagina.

Both of these images depict oral sex:

That's not all!

Right on down the webpage, there is a "sponsored link".

There is an ongoing Occult Agenda to teach the Christian Nations about the antichrist religions of the Mayans, (Scripture to be edited in soon per Not learning after those nations, etc.) .... This is another direct Illuminati attack on Christians!

Couldn't hyperlink the photo, so will have to edit in a screenshot later .... But this is the subject:

"This Is What The Mayans Were Actually Like. The Photos Are Strikingly …"

This Is What The Mayans Were Actually Like. The Photos Are Strikingly …

Then when that linked website is visited; You are hit first with the "Pyramid" which is also the symbol for the unfinished Tower of Babel:

And this is an interesting quote, of which is no intended pun, I'm sure .... notice: “the devil’s in the details”

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"Matthew Black

Matthew Black was born and raised in Seattle, WA and currently resides in San Diego, CA. Receiving an honors degree in history from the University of Washington, Matthew has since published a book and over a hundred web and print articles on a vast array of subjects. A man of many interests, he coaches soccer and travels the world when he’s not writing articles for History 101. He likes to say, “the devil’s in the details” and uses that approach to pour much of his energy into the research process."

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They take you on a beguiling and bewitching journey with the intentions of deceiving the masses, as the Mayans were antichrist, and made human sacrifices to the Devil, and these Satanist/Witches today are wanting to revive that Satanic practice, of which is being propagated on P.B.S., and other outlets including Museums. Need to edit in titles of so-called "documentaries" from P.B.S., along with names of Museums, etc.

So, here are just a few hard hitting example of concrete evidence of how they are deceiving BAPTISTS with things sacrificed unto idols wich are dotrines of devils!

Last Edit: Oct 11, 2019 19:31:22 GMT by Remnant Believer

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. - Apostle Paul - Hebrew 4:12