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World Vision and Same Sex Sin Employees

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WORLD VISION ACCEPTS SAME SEX SIN - BIBLICAL IGNORANCE Here we are again, WV stumbling through another brawl regarding gay marriage . If you missed it - Rich Stearns, CEO of World Vision , a Christian humanitarian organization "dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice," announced a policy change to allow employees in same-sex marriages to be eligible for employment . To Christianity Today , Stearns said, "Changing the employee conduct policy to allow someone in a same-sex marriage who is a professed believer in Jesus Christ to work for us makes our policy more consistent with our practice on other divisive issues ," he said. "It also allows us to treat all of our employees the same way: abstinence outside of marriage, and fidelity within marriage." TOTALLY NON-BIBLICAL POSITION Regarding sexual conduct, World Vision has always h

Metropolitan Community Church is a false church

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Image via Wikipedia The Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (MCC) grew out of the experience of its founder, Troy D. Perry (b. 1940), as a homosexual man in the Protestant church . Licensed as a Baptist preacher, Perry was drawn to Pentecostalism and became an evangelist for the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) . He later married, but an early homosexual encounter led to his dismissal from the church. He became a member of the Church of God of Prophecy , and worked as a pastor in Southern California. Over the next few years, he came to accept his homosexuality, ended his  marriage , and left the Church of God of Prophecy. In 1968, following a period of reflection on his call to the ministry and his sexual orientation, he began a church serving the homosexual community in Los Angeles, the Metropolitan Community Church, the first congregation of what would soon be a new Denomination. The movement would enjoy great success as the  gay  movement developed throug