Why 85 Episcopal churches closed their doors

(From WorldNetDaily)

Well, why do you think? This is why. If you doubt that the spectacle of an avowed homosexual serving as a bishop in the Episcopal Church has driven 36,000 members away and forced 85 parishes to close for lack of attendance and financial support, consider this: Those 85 parishes are more than double the number of parishes in the entire Diocese of New Hampshire.

Mr. Robinson, of course, remains unrepentant and defiant. Clearly he fails completely to understand the Scripture he is sworn to defend. But the problem goes further than that. The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the USA (the "American Province" of the Anglican Communion) doesn't understand the issue, either--and neither does the Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of it all. Then again, many have failed to grasp issues of even weightier import.

Conservative Episcopalians warned Canon Robinson to step down or gain the ignominy of causing a schism, and similarly warned the Presiding Bishop and the Archbishop to remove him--or else. They didn't remove him, so behold the "else."

But then again, Canon Robinson represents only the final outburst of Scriptural down-watering that has been going on for about half a century. It began with Bishop Otis Pike and continued with Bishop John Shelby Spong. That's when I realized that the Episcopal Church were the biggest bunch of losers since the ancient Sadducees. It would take me a great many years to find my focus, but I finally did--which is why I am a fundamental Baptist, and have aligned myself with the Independent Baptist Fellowship of North America.

So concerning this latest news from the Episcopal Church, I predict that if the Lord tarries, that church will die. But if He doesn't tarry, then--well, a time will come when I won't be here, and the IBFNA will be an untended Web presence--and Canon Robinson will be preaching to a full house on how the ECUSA should pray for deliverance "from the terror that now dares knock on the doors of this Thy House." (The War of the Worlds, dir. Byron Haskin, with Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, et al., Paramount Pictures, 1953). Little will he or anyone else know the Truth...!