BAPTIST “CHURCH” IN NATION’S CAPITOL HIRES “MARRIED” LESBIAN WOMEN TO LEAD CONGREGATION~ONE CAME FROM A UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST “CHURCH”
“As we met and talked with Sally and Maria about their vision
for pastoral leadership at Calvary, we were struck by their deep faith
and commitment to being part of a gospel community.” And, what “gospel”
would THAT be?” (Quote from second article below)
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A historic Baptist
“church” in the nation’s capital has hired two “married” lesbian women
to lead their congregation, a move that has raised concerns among
Baptists nationwide.
Calvary Baptist Church, which disassociated with the
Southern Baptist Convention in 2012, presented Maria Swearingen and
Sally Sarratt as “co-pastors” this past Sunday, according to a press
release from the Ministerial Selection Committee.
The two hail from Greenville, South Carolina as Sarratt had
been serving as associate chaplain in the Greenville Health System
and Swearingen as associate chaplain at Furman University. Sarratt had
also been working part time at Greenville Unitarian Universalist
Fellowship.
“As we met and talked with Sally and Maria about their
vision for pastoral leadership at Calvary, we were struck by their deep
faith and commitment to being part of a gospel community,” Committee
Chair Carol Blythe said in a statement.
“We were impressed by how their gifts, talents, and
experience matched our ministry priorities—and we are thrilled about
their upcoming pastorate and the versatility the co-pastor model will
provide our congregation,” she added.
The women are expected to assume their roles in February.
But some have expressed concern over the arrangement, including Albert Mohler of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
“Here you have a church—Calvary Baptist Church, one of the
most historic congregations in the nation’s capital—that has now called a
legally married lesbian couple as co-pastors,” he said on Tuesday
during his podcast “The Briefing.” “The overarching pattern [in this
matter] is the trajectory of American Protestant liberalism.
That liberalism began as an impulse to try to modify Christianity so
that it would fit better into a modern age.”
Mohler opined that the problems, however, go deeper than
lesbianism, as he noted that one of the women works as a minister for a
universalist assembly.
The Unitarian Universalist Association website outlines,
“Few of us believe in divine judgment after death. It’s in our religious
DNA: the Universalist side of our tradition broke with mainstream
Christianity by rejecting the idea of eternal damnation.”
“If the [District of Columbia Baptist Convention] does not
expel Calvary Baptist Church from their membership, then they by very
definition simply become a convention that will accept—that indeed does
accept—a church that has legally married lesbian co-pastors in terms of
their own membership,” Mohler stated.
But Convention director Robert Cochran told reporters that the organization has no intention of expelling Calvary Baptist.
“We have no plans to disassociate [with Calvary]. To the
best of my knowledge, the D.C. Baptist Convention, due to its respect
for local congregational autonomy, has never withdrawn fellowship from
any congregation,” he told the Baptist Press.
As previously reported, in 2014, Calvary Baptist ordained Daniel Robinson, a “transgender” who goes by the name Allyson Robinson.
“Allyson Dylan Robinson is a minister of the gospel, trained
for the task, and ordained to the gospel ministry by another community
in which she has served as pastor,” former leader Amy Butler wrote at
that time. “Over the course of her journey, God has invited her to step
into the faithful witness of a new identity, a true identity, and a new
name.”
Robinson now speaks as an itinerant preacher and appeared at Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner’s renaming ceremony in 2015.
“Frankly I consider Job, Gautama Buddha, Joan of Arc, Rumi
and Johnny Cash to be my spiritual predecessors far more than Augustine,
Aquinas or Barth,” he told the Alliance of Baptists in April. “My
hymnal has a lot less Isaac Watts and Fanny Crosby, but it’s full of Bob
Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tupac and Beyonce.”
HERESY
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November 12, 2016
NewsWithViews.com
past 48 hours, I’ve read of two different “Christian”
churches whose heretical views and teachings are at opposite ends of the
spectrum of stupid. I have to sometimes wonder what parallel universe
these pastors reside in, because their sense of Biblical reality is so
skewed and perverted, as to be comical.
me to introduce church number one: Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe,
AZ, founded and pastored by Steven Anderson. This gentleman is a self-ordained
preacher with no college degree or professional training whatsoever. Now,
considering the unholy tripe Bible seminaries are teaching today, that
isn’t necessarily a bad thing. However, without any traditional parameters
to hold one accountable it’s easy to run off the rails into the jungle
of personal opinion with regard to scriptural interpretation.
bio on the church website states that he was raised in California and
traveled through Germany and Eastern Europe for 3 months, serving in several
local Baptist churches, studying foreign languages and getting experience
in the ministry. Wow. All that knowledge crammed into 3 whole months!
It goes on to state he has “well over 140 chapters of the Bible memorized
word-for-word, including approximately half of the New Testament.”
This is shocking to me, considering how he loves to quote Leviticus.
see, this is a man who has appeared on TV talk shows, been interviewed
by radio stations and news casts for the sole reason he LOVES to curse
and denigrate homosexuals, quoting scripture about how God commanded they
be executed. Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Dang, Donna! You’ve
done the same thing!” Well, no I haven’t. I’ve spoken out against
homosexuality for years, explaining what the Bible has to say about this
practice and referring to those who indulge in that sin as the Bible does,
“sodomites.”
I’ve NEVER cursed them, called them names, or come close to hinting I
HATE them like this man does, ala the finest tradition of in-bred members
of the Westboro Baptist Church. Mr. Anderson consistently quotes the Levitical
mandate to put gays to death and openly states that if all homosexuals
were killed off, AIDS would be eradicated.
out into the community, confronting homosexual citizens, thumping and
shaking his Bible at them, yelling such things as “Shut your damn
mouth! I don’t want to hear a word you have to say!” He told
one gay radio host who was interviewing him that he hoped the man came
down with brain cancer and died. He has repeatedly stood in front of his
congregation and hysterically screamed that no “queers or faggots”
would EVER darken the door of that church as long as he is the pastor!
EVER! And if anyone didn’t like that, they could go to another church.
a massive You Tube following in which he preaches that there is no scripture
in the Bible that tells us we should repent. He also has a personal mandate
to see to it that the teaching of the pre-tribulation rapture is wiped
off the face of the earth because “it’s a satanic lie!”
He preaches against birth control of any kind (He has 9 children), and
the women of the congregation don’t wear makeup and don’t work outside
the home. They breed. Kinda sounds cultish, doesn’t it?
problem I have with this guy is he is wildly popular and has hundreds
of sermons freely available for download off the church’s website. These
sermons are filled with screeching, hate-filled, scripture-twisting, heretical
diatribe that doesn’t even come close to reflecting the teachings of Jesus.
Yet, he receives copious media attention, and you can guess why.
world is fascinated and delighted when they come across a freak like this
because he reinforces every fallacy they hold about what Christians act
like, and justifies their hated of Christ and God. Thanks a pant-load,
Mr. Anderson. You are nothing more than sounding brass and a tinkling
cymbal, because you do not LOVE.
God hate homosexuality? Yes, He calls it an abomination in His eyes. Does
He hate homosexuals? No. He loved them so much, He sent His only begotten
Son to die for them. Did Jesus ever scream and curse the lost, broken
dregs of society He ministered to? No. He was lovingly firm, forgiving,
healing, and cautioned them to “go and sin no more.”
for church number two. Walk with me to the opposite end of the heretical
spectrum, to Calvary Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., who just named
a “married” lesbian couple, Sally Sarratt and Maria Swearingen,
to co-pastor its congregation. *sigh* REALLY folks?
spokeswoman, Carol Blythe, told the Religion News Service “We look
for the best people in the world and that’s who they were. We’re very
excited. As we met and talked with Sally and Maria about their vision
for pastoral leadership at Calvary, we were struck by their deep faith
and commitment to being part of a gospel community.” And, what “gospel”
would THAT be?
presented to the congregation during Sunday services, Swearingen
and Sarratt
told church members: “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.“ Lovely. This
church now has two social justice warriors who sport a large
some-people-don’t-completely-accept-and-celebrate-our-lifestyle-choice
chip on their shoulder, as co-pastors.
we go from a pastor who sincerely invokes death and disease on gays during
his wild-eyed, foam-spitting sermons, as he literally jumps on top of
his pulpit to make a point, all the way to having two SJW lesbian queens
appointed as shepherds over a flock of CINO’s. Well, who can say for sure?
There may actually be a few bona-fide, Bible believing Christians in both
those churches. If there are, I hope they run away fast enough that the
doorknob doesn’t hit them in the back!
in heaven’s name is wrong with these people? From what Biblical source
are they receiving their theology? What god are they supposedly serving?
How can they be so deluded as to be convinced they’re pleasing to and/or
accurately representing Almighty God and His Son? I’m getting a headache.
pastor spews pure, blind, vitriolic, white-hot hatred while the other
two are busy filling out their Sisters of Sappho membership cards. And
we marvel that the ‘church’ is so screwed up! Poor God; what disappointment
and disgust He must feel when He surveys this earth. The gospel is so
simple, yet what has mankind done to it? Twisted it; perverted the message;
fractured it into countless factions of denominations, each one sure their
views are the ‘right’ ones.
Jesus warned “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there
be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the
way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
-Matthew 7:13-14 (KJV) As time goes on, it becomes clearer every day just
how few people really WILL find the narrow gate.
folks, the mandate isn’t difficult to understand. Jesus made it very simple,
and God left us the incomparable masterpiece of the Bible to guide us
in how to relate to others and navigate our way through this cesspool
we call the world.
which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with
all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second
is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two
commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” -Matthew
22:36-40 (KJV) There. Told you it was simple. Now do it!
are we supposed to just accept homosexuality? What if they want to come
into the church? Whattaya think the church is for?! It’s a spiritual intensive
care unit for the sick and lost. Yes, you welcome homosexuals into your
church. And you love them and lead them to Jesus, explaining Christ’s
salvation as well as the consequences for refusing that gift.
are truly born again, the Bible tells us “Therefore if any man
be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold,
all things are become new.” 2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)Â
That’s when the pastor and deacons can begin to pray for their deliverance,
and hold them accountable regarding renouncing their gay lifestyle. They
may struggle for a time because of all the brainwashing they’ve suffered
over the years, but there IS hope.
if they refuse to change their actions, saying they are born that way
and just can’t help their feelings? Well, our ‘feelings’ are meaningless.
We are ALL tempted in some aspect of sin. Sodomy is simply their weakness.
That doesn’t give them license to give into that temptation and act on
it any more than other members giving in to their desire to fornicate,
commit adultery or abuse drugs.
was clear when He cautioned people about following Him. There IS a cost
involved and sometimes that cost is painful and uncomfortable. It’s a
sacrifice. “And he said to them all, ‘If any man will come after
me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.'”
Luke 9:23 (KJV) There may come a time where they have to choose what is
more important: following Jesus or satisfying their sexual appetite.
choose homosexuality, then the Bible outlines how the elders and pastor
are to deal with them. But it NEVER includes screaming threats of hellfire
and hatred, nor does it direct that Christians accept and overlook their
sin. No matter what, they are to be treated with respect and love; sometimes
tough love, but love nonetheless.
fact that I’m even writing about this is proof positive that we are in
the last seconds of the Age of Grace. The door to the ark of safety is
closing, and God’s wrath on this depraved generation is about to fall.
Are you saved?
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SEE ALSO:
I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but
to remain quiet. For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve.”
Take note that this is not cultural mandate, the Apostle Paul uniquely
adds a clarifier that this is from the creation of man and women
establishing the order of Federal Headship and which gender is to lead the church. In other words, Paul’s words here are not an opinion but a doctrinal statement.”