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Beth Moore Becomes Anglican and Some Baptists Pick Up Pitch Forks

Michael F. Bird
Dec 20, 2021
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You know, ignorance and malevolence are a bad, bad combination. Nothing illustrates this more than some Baptist responses to the news that Beth Moore has joined an Anglican Church and she assisted in the distribution of the Eucharist.

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Rod D. Martin @RodDMartin
if I had a dollar for every Twitter fanboy who told me I was the devil for suggesting Beth Moore didn’t believe the BFM (while she took all that LifeWay money)… “Dressed in Priestly Garb, Beth Moore Delivers Eucharist at Her New Anglican Church”
reformationcharlotte.orgDressed in Priestly Garb, Beth Moore Delivers Eucharist at Her New Anglican ChurchBeth Moore, when she apostatized a few months ago and left a somewhat biblical denomination for a completely apostate denomination, made it clear that her intentions were to continue to rebel against God by performing the function and role of a pastor, which the Scriptures reserve for men. Beth Moor…
4:31 PM ∙ Dec 20, 2021
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A few crazy folks seem to think that:

  • Anglican is exactly the same as Catholic.

  • Anglicans believe in transubstantiation.

  • Anglicans are apostate.

  • Wearing robes makes you a priest.

  • It is heresy for women to distribute communion.

What kind of bad hombre attacks a woman for participating in a religious worship service? As Rev. Prof. McGowin puts it:

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Rev. Emily Hunter McGowin, Ph.D. @EmilyMcgowin
Sister Beth Moore should be able to serve in her church—and her church be able to receive her service in worship—in peace without being targeted for public harassment by self-appointed heresy hunters. I’m reporting all such tweets & suggest you do the same.
7:20 PM ∙ Dec 20, 2021
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Of course, this is a minority of Baptists doing this hating, so I’m glad to say that I got some Baptist friends like Rev. Griffin who are a careful voice of rebuke.

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Griffin Gulledge @griffingulledge
@mbird12 I simply don’t believe that people are this stupid, but I do believe that they are this sinful. Shameful behavior to attack a woman for reading Scripture at her church.
9:43 PM ∙ Dec 20, 2021

If you don’t like Anglicanism, fine! Just make sure you know what you’re talking about if you trash it!

To those Baptist crazies, Beth Moore going Anglican is the least of your problems, here’s what you should be angry about:

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Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
Trump attended the Christmas service this morning at First Baptist Dallas. Pastor Robert Jeffress asked him to come up and give a Christmas message to the congregation, and a MAGA rally broke out. Trump’s ‘prayer’ was about Afghanistan, inflation, gas prices and the border.
7:14 PM ∙ Dec 19, 2021
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Advent greetings to you all!

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Michael Daigle
Dec 21, 2021·edited Dec 21, 2021Liked by Michael F. Bird

To those who don’t know what the heck they are talking about, you should shut the heck up! Since joining our Parish, Beth and her husband Keith have been absolutely WONDERFUL people to get to know and worship with!

For those Baptists, who for the most part don’t know a damn thing about Liturgical and Sacramental worship, to be criticizing her for wearing “Priestly Garb” during the Service don’t know a damn thing about what they are talking about.

First of they are called Vestments. What she is wearing are NOT Priestly Vestments. She is a Lay Reader (she reads the prescribed Scripture readings appointed for that particular Sunday, from the Old and New Testament). A Deacon or Priest reads the Gospel reading appointed for that Sunday. Beth has also volunteered her TIME and TALENT to also become a Lay Eucharistic Minister, which involves her dispensing the Consecrated wine from the Chalice. The Vestments she is wearing are a Black Cassock and a White Surplice. Those Vestments are worn by Lay members of the congregation who are participating as members of the Altar Party during the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist. I have personally worked with Beth in her new liturgical roles and she is FANTASTIC! She has a zeal and fire for serving the Lord in these capacities! I personally couldn’t be happier to have Beth as a member of our church family! Also, in the past 10 years or so, there have been several other high profile evangelical fundamentalist Protestant clergy who have come to know a fuller and more satisfying relationship with God through liturgical and sacramental worship.

You should be ashamed of yourselves for attacking a fellow Sister in Christ, because she has found the the fulfillment of her faith journey through the liturgical and sacramental worship handed down to the Church by the Apostles themselves!

God bless Beth as she continues her new journey!

Michael Daigle

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Steven Rood
Dec 21, 2021Liked by Michael F. Bird

She’s actually dressed as a Lay Reader and a Chalice Bearer rather than a priest. So much Christian love and kindness here!

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