Monday, June 3, 2019

IN the NEWS - Enmity for God sweeps Texas Baptists

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God:
for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
Romans 8:7

"A Waco church that recently announced it will permit gay marriages voluntarily ended its relationship with the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

University Baptist Church in Waco announced in mid-May it will allow its building to be used for gay weddings and grant its ministerial staff freedom to choose whether to perform LGBTQ marriages.
At the November 2016 BGCT annual meeting in Waco, Texas Baptists approved a motion establishing affirmation of gay marriage as grounds for declaring a church outside the bounds of cooperation with the state convention.
The BGCT Executive Board subsequently carried out that policy by declaring three churches—Lake Shore Baptist in Waco, First Baptist in Austin and Wilshire Baptist in Dallas—“outside of harmonious cooperation” with the BGCT"
BaptistStandard