The Episcopal Church has sailed inrto oblivion

For those who still held out hope that The Episcopal Church might hold on to some thread of Christian identity and relevance in today's world, that ship sailed today when the House of Bishops approved resolution D025 which now allows any person with any type of sexual proclivity to be ordained into its ministry. Heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, transgendered - name it and it is no longer an obstacle to becoming an ordained minister in the once great Episcopal Church in the U.S.

Gone are all the biblical qualities of those who enter the ordained ministry. Gone are St. Paul's admonitions that a bishop would be the husband of one wife. Now I suppose a bishop could have a wife, a gay lover and be himself or herself a transgendered cross dresser.

Gone are the admonitions that the leaders of the Church are to set a high moral example for the people of God they lead. Now they can simply mirror the basest of society and claim to be in touch with the people. Soon altars and tables around the Episcopal will be rife with any manner of sexual expressions with liturgies to follow soon thereafter. Soon the altars and churches of the Episcopal Church will look more like the altars of the goddess Diana or Baal or other pagan deities who serve at the altar of self-pleasure than the high altar of the risen Lord Christ.

Gone, it seems, are any hints of any sort of self-control, modesty or even humility. Taking their place at the high altar are lasciviousness, fornication, wickedness and adultery just to name a few.

The Episcopal Church, before General Convention 2009, was loosing members at a very rapid pace. With the actions of this General Convention, there can be no doubt that defections will rapidly increase. What makes all this even worse is that many of those who will leave TEC will be so demoralized and dejected with the church that they will simply stop going to church. The words of Jesus should echo in the ears of every person, clergy and laity alike, at General Convention who have perpetrated this evil:

"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea."