[GCFL-discuss] Dull

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Nope, nuh-uh, not happening, negatory, no way, guess again.
I was BORN into a Baptist home and when I moved away from home chose a community church that believed in the 5 points of Calvinism and was reformed (as in The Reformation) in its theology.  My father thought I had joined a cult!  For the past 20 years I have been active in the Evangelical Covenant Church which grew out of Sweden.  Our church is friendly, active in the community, and Bible-based.  Sadly, our pastor does NOT believe in predestination or preach about the sovereignty of God.  He believes in the free will of man.
I don't even remember a discussion of Episcopalians and homosexuality/marriage.  That must have been on a different discussion list.  I read a book called "Growing Up Baptist" and I laughed so hard I thought I would bust a gut.  It was true on so many levels and yet wasn't offensive because I felt like I was poking fun at it myself.

I have been privileged to attend Evensong at Oxford University.  Was a bishop involved in that?

I now think of you as a male, I'll have you know.  My elder, but not yet 50.  Maybe I'll send you a picture of me sitting in a pew with a bulletin in my hand with the piano/pianist in the background and the pastor behind the pulpit.  Too bad I only have memories of those images, not actual pictures.

And what's up with the last comment?!?  I think it might have hurt my feelings!  (Now how do I make an emoticon that is a crying, sad face?)

Jeanene


----- Original Message ----- 
> Jeanene, somewhere way back when I thought you had said that your family,
> and your entire church, were among the Episcopalians who were more or
> less pulling out of the denomination because of its acceptance of
> homosexual ministers, bishops and marriages. Now my memory is known to
> have errors, I think the rate is one part per million bytes of data, or
> something like that, or that's what I recall, but...
> 
> IF you were ever Episcopalian, or Anglican, you would have bishops.
> 
> Now you tell me you are Baptist, which is as great a shock to me as it
> was to you to find out that I am (a) male, and (b) over 50.

Pain makes everyone grumpy. But it doesn't seem to have changed you all that much.
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