Youngstown News, Presbyterians moving toward acceptance of gay clergy: "After decades of debate, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) on Tuesday struck down a barrier to ordaining gays, ratifying a proposal that removes the celibacy requirement for unmarried clergy, in the latest mainline Protestant move toward accepting gay relationships.
What exactly is an apostate church? One criteria would certainly be to condone and promote activities that are clearly sinful in the site of God, the One whom we are to please. This is the case when churches do not discipline for clear sin and is especially relevant when they endorse and promote those in open sin to positions of authority.
Romans 1:26b-28 "Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved. Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done."
What is so hard about this to understand? If you do not want to be a Christian, then do not be a Christian. That is up to you and the Lord. However if you are choosing to use that label, you sort of need to abide by the clear teaching of scripture...whether you like it or not.
