Jesus isn't 'Lord' at these churches
This is an article from the "Bible Belt Blogger"
Some of Tucson's liberal churches aren't comfortable referring to Jesus as "Lord" anymore, reports Stephanie Innes of the Arizona Daily Star.
Episcopalians, Congregationalists and some Methodists are searching for less patriarchal terminology to describe the protagonist of the New Testament.
"Lord" has become a loaded word conveying hierarchical power over things, "which in what we have recorded in our sacred texts, is not who Jesus understood himself to be," said Susan Anderson-Smith, an associate minister at Tucson's largest Episcopal church.
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That's about ridiculous and stupid if you ask me. Seems like way too many people are worried about offending people and not so worried about offending our God in Heaven.
Take for instance this quote:
"'Lord' has become a loaded word conveying hierarchical power over things, which in what we have recorded in our sacred texts, is not who Jesus understood himself to be..."
Evidently this minister is not familiar with the Bible. To name a few, check out these verses, all of which displaying Jesus with hierarchical power...in fact, He was God right?
John 17.1-5
Colossians 1.14-17
Isaiah 9.6
Mark 14.61-62
Psalm 110.1
Well put, I am pretty sure Jesus knew who he was. I hate when the Gospel is tweaked in some way to make it more useful in accomplishing some social agenda or whatever.
Take a look at this quote:
"The way our service reads, the theology is that God is love, period," St. Philip's deacon Thomas Lindell added. "Our service has done everything it can to get rid of power imagery. We do not pray as though we expect the big guy in the sky to come and fix everything."
From what I can gather, as liberal theology has crept into many mainline denominations, is that the "love" of God has been elevated to a level that is above God himself.
You can't seperate the sovereignty of God and love of God, or the wrath of God and the love of God. All of them are traits of God that are interconnected and define who he is, certain traits are not to be seperated from the others and placed above them and God as well, just like certain traits aren't to be thrown away.
To do this is to start creating a false view of God that eventually leads to worshipping him in vain as well as a faith that is in vain.
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