Rob Pacienza, a prominent Presbyterian pastor, has slammed Bishop Budde for nagging the freshly sworn-in Donal Trump to “have mercy” on immigrants and transgender children. He was in attendance that day and says the Bishop created discord by her actions. He says this is emblematic of wider problems in the mainline protestant world.
“It wasn’t really a sermon,” he told the Christian Post. “It was a lecture that really came across as mean and divisive. And I think the irony was she attempted to preach on unity, but her rhetoric and her very unwelcoming spirit — from the beginning to the end of her message — actually created more division in the end.” He said, “It was a lecture that really came across as mean and divisive.”
” I think the irony was she attempted to preach on unity, but her rhetoric and her very unwelcoming spirit — from the beginning to the end of her message — actually created more division in the end,” The pastor said, “I could tell right off the bat, as soon as she started delivering the message, that this was going to be her way of putting the president and his administration in their place.”
Pacienza realizes there is a place for religious leaders to clash with politicians but notes, “There’s a time and place for it.” “There are certainly examples in Scripture — Moses petitioning Pharaoh, Daniel petitioning Nebuchadnezzar — but it was always for the sake of unity, using biblical truth, using the faithful Word of God in order to bring about unity, to bring about correction,” he explained.
“When you dig deep, it’s really not biblical truth at all,” he declared. “It’s more of a social gospel. It’s more an attempt to be culturally relevant. They replace biblical truth with culturally relevant progressive policies and ideologies like wokeism and Marxism.” he says these ideologies are killing the mainline churches, like the Episcopal church where Budde serves.
“These churches are dying: many of them are just a museum on Sunday mornings for people to tour and sight-see,” the pastor said. “The mainline churches and denominations, as we saw at the National Cathedral, churches like these are dying…”They’re becoming irrelevant, and it’s really not what people are hungry for. They’re hungry for God’s Word. They’re hungry for the truth. Unfortunately, as you saw [last week], you’re not going to get that at the National Cathedral.”
“When you look at the surveys and the statistics, the churches that are grounded in God’s Word and preaching the whole counsel of God and applying it to all of life — regardless of what the culture says, and regardless of where the culture is going — those churches and denominations are growing,” he concluded. Budde became infamous for her unhinged rant.
Watch the Unhinged Rant Below:
Woke pastor attacks Trump and Vance to their faces for scaring “LGBTQ kids” and illegals.
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde said “In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now,” during her sermon at the National Cathedral. Trump and Vice President JD Vance watched unamused with their families. She added, “There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives.”
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