Resolution 1 passed. No surprise there.
We are now debating amendments and substitutions to Resolution 2. The first substitution basically authorized congregations to allow their pastors to bless couples in covenanted unions. After more than an hour of debate, it failed 67% to 33%. The original resolution is still before us, with several more amendments/substitutions to debate.
The voting members decided to limit debate on subsequent amendments/substitutions to twenty minutes. Debate on the original resolutions will not be so limited.
Please keep praying, folks!---Katie
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I appreciate your updates. Thank you.
Good advice. But talk about playing the part of the grinch.......Youth Gatherings have always been touted as the high point of the teen years. We have our work cut out for us, especially since they view our young female pastor as a role model. She is a wonderful human being and I love her dearly, but I am afraid she comes from the very liberal side of things. Her children are only toddlers, so she has not had to test these waters with her own children, and that makes a difference.
Learned that a little bit too late, but I trust the Spirit to guide them as they grow and mature and learn that things are not always so clear cut. However......
We remain in unceasing prayer for our children and for all our youth, because as parents know, you can't be with them 24 hours a day. Even if you home school, they are still exposed to things that you would rather they not confront just yet.
But Praise be to God, they are marked with the cross of Christ forever, and once beyond the bounds of home, I trust that He is able to keep His own.
However...........pray, pray, pray.
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