Lloyd, I appreciate your thoughts and your optimism, and I share them. But at the same time it's hard to be optimistic when Indiana Ministries is presently stripping ordination credentials from ministers who have signed the ChogAffirm statement. That process is not being done in a relational way. There does not seem to be a willingness "to fellowship with our sisters and brothers who may look, think, and act differently from us." And that saddens me.
Lloyd, I appreciate your thoughts and your optimism, and I share them. But at the same time it's hard to be optimistic when Indiana Ministries is presently stripping ordination credentials from ministers who have signed the ChogAffirm statement. That process is not being done in a relational way. There does not seem to be a willingness "to fellowship with our sisters and brothers who may look, think, and act differently from us." And that saddens me.
I'm not sure I'm really optimistic, but not without hope. Yes, the way some of these issues are being handled is concerning.