gee, Jane is as angry at the kids in her church
as I am mad at her and her associate at First UMC of Omaha for
1. peddling Universalism and telling their deceived at First UMC of Omaha never to take John 14:6 to be literal
2. lying to the local reformed synagogue near their church they dont need YESHUA (see Isaiah 53 to see who YESHUA aka JESUS is)
3. pushing mysticism and occultic practices like lectio divina and labyrinths
4. pushing people like John Spong and Marcus Borg and while First UMC of Omaha claims to be a Open minded church
would never allow Lee Strobel or Norm Geisler speak at their church or even have people read their stuff cause First UMC believes that apologetics and truth in christianity is somehow "intolerant"
5. peddling a far left social gospel and lying to people and saying that is what JESUS died for:
so JESUS could peddle a Jim Wallis like socalist agenda
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The Rev. Jane Florence, First United Methodist Church, Omaha
Ephesians 6:10-18
This Scripture begins with exhortation to “put on the whole armor of God.” I’ve cringed to see children’s Sunday school classes take this passage quite literally by having children cut out kid-sized paper swords, shields, breastplates and boots of military apparel. They then decorate the cutouts with crayons and tape the pieces to their pint-sized bodies while singing songs about “marching in the infantry, riding in the cavalry, shooting the artillery” and shouting the chorus, “’cause I’m in the Lord’s army.”
Somewhere in the pages of Christian history, the nonviolent message that Jesus taught about resisting social and political oppression became the battle cry for just the opposite. The “weapons” that St. Paul advocated against the “cosmic powers of this present darkness” do not include AK-47 assault rifles, explosive tennis shoes or smart bombs.
The Scripture encourages resistance to the powers of oppression using “truth ... righteousness ... peace ... faithfulness ... and the Spirit of the Divine.” The forces of oppression worthy of our efforts of resistance are many, but in America perhaps there is no greater power that holds our spirits captive than that of Mammon.
The desire for money and possessions can enslave us in debt, divide us one from another, and oppress the vulnerable. It can steal us away from our true identity, seduce us into its worship, and convince us of its power to save.
Our relationship with our money is a living theological creed that we enact each day. We cannot not use money, but we can spend, save, share, give and consume intentionally to further justice and peace in God’s world.
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