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Pastor keeps job after coming out as atheist
https://pulpitandpen.org/2018/11/10/...ill-keeps-job/
[Global News] A United Church minister who had faced an unprecedented ecclesiastical court hearing over her professed atheism is no longer in danger of a defrocking after the two sides reached an agreement in the long-running case.
In an unexpected development this week, Rev. Gretta Vosper and the church settled ahead of what some had dubbed a "heresy trial," leaving her free to minister to her east-end Toronto congregation.
It's going to be wonderful," Vosper said in an interview Friday. "We'll be out from underneath that heavy cloud. Now we'll be able to really fly."
The settlement, the terms of which are confidential, came during what was supposed to be a week of routine preliminary motions ahead of the full hearing later in the month.
The church did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday but said in a statement that the formal hearing had been called off in light of the agreement, while the Right Rev. Richard Bott, who was elected in July to lead the United Church in Canada, said in a public message that he was pleased with the resolution.
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‘These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass: 19 “I know your works, love, service, faith, and your patience; and as for your works, the last are more than the first. 20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce My servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols. 21 And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent. 22 Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.
24 “Now to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they say, I ]will put on you no other burden. 25 But hold fast what you have till I come. 26 And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations—
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‘He shall rule them with a rod of iron;
They shall be dashed to pieces like the potter’s vessels’—
as I also have received from My Father; 28 and I will give him the morning star.
29 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.” ’
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An atheist. Well, it aint a secret at least.
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An atheist. Well, it aint a secret at least.
And the congregation seems not to care. The whole bunch needs to get saved.
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And the congregation seems not to care. The whole bunch needs to get saved.
Here's the church's facebook page...mostly a bunch of mumbo jumbo:
https://www.facebook.com/church.at.westhill/
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The United Church of Canada was originally a solid church, based on the joining together of 3 mainline churches to minister to small communities across Canada. It's the church I went to Sunday School in as a child.
However, when I took my kids to Sunday School/Church in the early 80s, it was already putting homosexuals in the pulpit. People were either leaving or trying to stay and fight. The leadership was completely set to push the gay agenda through and was the first church in Canada to freely ordain gays and lesbians. And now professing atheists.
They have also changed the language that refers to God. No more "He." That's not inclusive, you know. It's pure heresy.
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The United Church of Canada was originally a solid church, based on the joining together of 3 mainline churches to minister to small communities across Canada. It's the church I went to Sunday School in as a child.
However, when I took my kids to Sunday School/Church in the early 80s, it was already putting homosexuals in the pulpit. People were either leaving or trying to stay and fight. The leadership was completely set to push the gay agenda through and was the first church in Canada to freely ordain gays and lesbians. And now professing atheists.
They have also changed the language that refers to God. No more "He." That's not inclusive, you know. It's pure heresy.
It disgusts me. The whole liberal mess.
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krystian
Decided to look up and read the FB post by atheist Pastor Gretta - she uses christian terminology like "support, love, expressions of empathy, and constancy" finishing with the statement 'It is a new day in the Christian world".
A new day in the christian world 
We shouldn't be surprised as she is following the deception by church leaders in elevating 'false love' above God and his Word.
When man's concept of 'love' becomes the most important thing then any belief system becomes acceptable.
The greatest Commandment is to LOVE the Lord thy God and his love is infused with his character and holiness. You cannot separate God's love and holiness
The devil has done a wonderful job of perverting scriptural love and many Church leaders including Pentes/Charismatics are also accountable for this error
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