This is just Pathetic / Sad / Wrong

[Thoughtful Monk]

When I graduated college and started my job, I ended up joining a suburban PC(USA) church. When it had a big church fight, I ended up at a non-denominational. Several of my friends ended up at a PC(USA) church in a more urban setting. It's in a section of town I don't go to very often but when I'd go by, it was still open.

This week after a couple years, I went by it. Out front was a now a sign that read Cathedral of the Brotherhood of the Cross and the Star. When I looked up the group, to me they land in weird and heretical land.

I'm not big fan of PC(USA). Yet I still feel that it is pathetic, sad, and wrong that one of their churches ended up owned by heretics. Maybe I'm more feeling for my friends who given their nature were probably there until the end.

[mossrose]

I fear that more and more churches that were once grounded on the word of God are falling away into all kinds of strange and bizarre conglomerations of different "faiths" in order to be more inclusive.

We are in the days of the Laodicean church. Neither hot nor cold, but tepid and disgusting, and God is going to spit these churches out of His mouth.

Edit to add: I just looked this up online. Not good................

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothe...Cross_and_Star

[Cow Poke]

Just out of curiosity, and to clarify "church" (a church building) with "church" (a local congregation) -- did the congregation sell out to a new theology, or did the congregation sell the building, and the new owners were of this weird bent?

[Thoughtful Monk]

Just out of curiosity, and to clarify "church" (a church building) with "church" (a local congregation) -- did the congregation sell out to a new theology, or did the congregation sell the building, and the new owners were of this weird bent?

Don't know for sure. My money is on congregation probably got too small to support the building, so they dissolved and the building was sold to new owners.

[Cow Poke]

Don't know for sure. My money is on congregation probably got too small to support the building, so they dissolved and the building was sold to new owners.

That would be my guess, as well. Sadly, there's a former church my where my parents lived that has been turned into a bar, and they appear to enjoy the fact that it still looks like an old fashioned church building.

[mikewhitney]

That would be my guess, as well. Sadly, there's a former church my where my parents lived that has been turned into a bar, and they appear to enjoy the fact that it still looks like an old fashioned church building.

So they can say they are going to church?

[Cow Poke]

So they can say they are going to church?

that, and even worse - nearly blasphemous - stuff.

[rogue06]

That would be my guess, as well. Sadly, there's a former church my where my parents lived that has been turned into a bar, and they appear to enjoy the fact that it still looks like an old fashioned church building.

When I was a kid there was a fancy restaurant that was set up in an old monastery. They were called The Abbey. The waitresses wore monk's robes (habit?) but cut really short like a minidress (in fact they referred to them as mini-monks).

[Cow Poke]

When I was a kid there was a fancy restaurant that was set up in an old monastery. They were called The Abbey. The waitresses wore monk's robes (habit?) but cut really short like a minidress (in fact they referred to them as mini-monks).

I see that as kinda poking your thumb in God's eye. I wouldn't wanna be there on judgment day.