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Thursday, July 31, 2003 Disunited Uniting ChurchHard on the heels of the decision by the Uniting Church in Australia to affirm support of gay and lesbian clergy, there is much disquiet and talk of the various factions splitting off.The Rev. Gordon Moyes ("I am committed to remain within the Uniting Church and change it") writes about how this situation has come about. He tells that the Uniting Church is an agglomeration formed from Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists some 27 years ago. And he's scathing about the leadership. How do theologically liberal clergy, out of touch with the members in the pews, gain control of church structures? Why are views expressed by the hierarchy so often out of tune with their members? Dr Jim Heidinger, of the United Methodist Church, says the hierarchy "often have difficulties in the parish because of their views, and then they begin searching for power . . . Conservative evangelicals, on the other hand, tend to stay out of the political side of church life and concentrate on spreading the gospel. The result is a liberal takeover of church authority." My Christian training leads me to understand that there are many accepted practices in today's society that are not OK under orthodox Christian doctrine. Perhaps the church cannot expect to force its standards on society, but neither should society expect the church to conform to its mores. The "Uniting" Church needs to comprehend that to be a Christian is to be counter-cultural. # posted by geoff @ 5:24 pm 0 comments
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