The Voice Of One Crying Out In Suburbia

Further signs of schism

As a denomination, the Episcopal Church has been a mess for a long time. Really it long ago ceased to be an active branch in the Church of Christ by abandoning the Gospel and the core doctrines of Christianity. There are still plenty of churches and individuals who show fidelity to the Gospel, but they do so in spite of, not because of, their membership in the Episcopal church. (note: I understand that one's standing in the church universal is not determined by denominational membership)

Now there are reports that the Episcopal Church has suspended one of their Bishops, preventing him from giving sermons or officiating any religious ceremonies. Finally, some church discipline in the Episcopal Church right!

Wrong. The Bishop in question, Bishop John-David Schofield, is guilty of high crimes including calling his denomination back to Biblical Christianity, and calling on his diocese to withdraw from the Episcopal Church due to it's flaunting of Biblical truths and embrace of all manner of heresy and perversion:

"demonstrated that Bishop Schofield has abandoned the communion of this Church by an open renunciation of the Doctrine, Discipline or Worship of this Church."

The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, the "Presiding Bishop" of the Episcopal Church at least should get some credit for showing some spine, even though she stands on the wrong side of Biblical Christianity on this issues, as is true with so many others.

Bishop Schofield doesn't seemed cowed by "Bishop" Schori's threats and discipline:

The bishop gave no signs of changing direction in a statement issued late Friday by the diocese.

"It is the primary duty of bishops to guard the faith and Bishop Schofield has been continually discriminated against for having done so," the statement read. "How is it that over 60 million Anglicans worldwide can be wrong and a few hundred thousand in the American Church can claim to be right?"

Good for him. At least he seems to have read the Bible and recognize what the role of a Bishop is (along with the qualifications for that office, qualifications that "Bishop" Schori fails to meet in several areas)

It is ironic that the Episcopal Church under Schori embraces homosexuality and all manner of deviant theology with a smile, but frowns upon and censers those who dare speak a word of Biblical reproach and a call for repentance.