“Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?” 2 Corinthians 6:14

“Should I stay or should I go now. If I stay there will be trouble. An’ If I go it will be double” Should I Stay or Should I Go – The Clash.

“One thing, one thing leads to another” One Thing Leads to Another – The Fixx

With all the parishes and dioceses that are leaving and/or trying distance themselves from the heresies of the Episcopal Church, I thought I would look up 2 Corinthians 6:14 on the internet for possible enlightenment and commentary. It seems that this verse is applied mostly to potential marriages between Christians and unbelievers. It is used to discourage a Holy bond between two people whose spiritual views may be at odds with each other. This is good advice. Very few marriages seem to work when the couple’s worldviews are so far apart. But what is a believer to do when the person that they are married to has lost faith and fallen away from Christian belief and values? Both the Old and New Testaments tell us that the only reason for divorce of a married couple is adultery. So unless adultery has been committed then the implication is that the couple must stay together being unevenly yoked. That now begs a question concerning the Episcopal Church. Has it been unfaithful and adulterous or has it merely lost its faith?

I do not believe that there is any question that the Episcopal Church has lost its faith. It no longer recognizes the authority of Scripture. Church canons now seem to supersede the spoken word of Jesus Christ and the Apostles to whom Jesus gave authority. The canons themselves seem to be fluid and open to the interpretation of the Presiding Bishop. Prophecy is the new wisdom and the prophecy heard in the Episcopal Church is the false prophecy of an imagined voice of the Holy Spirit. To my knowledge the Holy Spirit has never led God’s people away from the will of God as He has made it known in Scripture. However, the Episcopal Church is telling its members that it is being directed by the Holy Spirit to have new priorities and new concepts of what is sinful and what is not.

The Great Commission that Christ assigned to all those who would follow Him has taken a back seat to the works that the Church can perform for other. Service seems to be the new priority, service to the Episcopal Church while Christ’s message is being neglected. Christ spoke harshly to the Pharisees and teachers when he said, “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cummin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former” (Matthew 23:23). Are not the elders of the National Episcopal Church putting the works of their hands over the sharing of the Gospel? Are not they neglecting the more important work of bringing Christ’s message to those who have not heard it? Are they not now practicing one at the expense of the other? Has the leaders of the National Episcopal Church lost there faith and in turned voted faith out of the body. I say absolutely.

In the case of the second question, has the Episcopal Church been unfaithful? To this I say most assuredly it has. The Church been unfaithful to its members as well as it has been unfaithful to Christ and the traditional teachings of the New Testament. The moment that the Episcopal Church accepted unrepentant practicing homosexuals to be teachers, leaders and shepherds to the laity then the church became a mistress to the Adversary. The second that the leaders of the Episcopal Church decided to “weary the Lord by saying that all who do evil are good in the eyes of the Lord and He is pleased with them” (Malachi 2:17) they slipped off the wedding band ran into the night to meet their lover. The church gave up the love Christ Jesus and exchanged it for the lies of the father of lies and teacher of harlots. Seduced by promises of money and power and the freedom to call any sin a virtue the Episcopal Church betrayed both Jesus our Savior and the members that made up the church body.

The Episcopal Church now wishes to preach a new gospel that is different than the one it received. Considering what Paul stated, “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned!” (Galatians 1:8), what hope is there for the Episcopal Church in America? To walk away from those who would teach us the lies that they are being taught by their new master is the path that some have chosen to follow. I also understand that there are those parishioners that have not bought in to the false teachings and heresies who want to stay. Like an estranged husband of a wayward wife, they wait in anticipation of the return of the woman they love even though she may be long gone in mind as well as body. They hope against hope that the person the fell in love with will come back and things will be as they once were. Is it a fool’s hope? Only the Lord our God knows for sure. Are those who wish to leave too quick to pull the trigger and turn their backs on what they once loved instead of waiting in thoughtful prayer for their beloved to realize what she is throwing away? Again, only the Lord knows. One must go where ever the Spirit of God may lead them.