United Church of Canada: ATHEIST MINISTER!!! > 나눔

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http://news.nationalpost.com/news/religion/vitriol-among-united-church-members-as-atheist-minister-closer-to-being-dismissed-in-formal-hearing

United Church of Canada (UCC) is supposed to be a reformed prebysterian church denomination that formed by merging Methodist, Presbyterian, and other denominations with 600,000 members.

This supposed reformed Presbyterian denomination allowed someone to pastor and teach the body of Christ who stopped using "the word "God" in her ministry because it was a barrier to participation in the church."  The word "God" should fill Christians with awe, adoration, and fear, but to her, it was a hindrance to "accomodating members".  Many protestant churches have removed the word "repent" from usage, so we can be "more loving and more accomodating to so called seekers" than Jesus Christ who began his ministry with "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand (Matt. 4:4)". Now, some are removing Jesus Christ, our God, from the church altogether.

I can understand that this is an isolated incident and UCC is taking actions, but I find their statement more offensive and dangerous. They states "In our opinion, she is not suitable to continue in ordained ministry because she does not believe in God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit.".  "Opinion?... Bible is the revealed truth from God.  What abomination is this to treat God's word as an "opinion".  It is the objective TRUTH!!! 

Are we living in times where Christian pastors are not required for be convicted and instill conviction to sheeps that they are one body in Jesus Christ and that we live in Christ now?  Did we miss another God-breathed book somewhere that somehow overturned unchanging word of God in 1 Sam 15:22 that states "it is better to obey than to sacrifice"?  How much are we willing to compromise the core Christian principles to follow the Hollywood definition of love?

"Hell is full of good wishes or desires"  -Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (one of the my heroes)