[MLPnews] MLP Board Statement: It's About Time

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  Dear Friends,

  Your More Light Presbyterians national board of directors adopted the 
following statement at its February 2008 meeting in Santa Fe, NM.  As we 
approach General Assembly, we covet your prayers, support, and help as 
we work to make our church one that welcomes /all/ of God's people.

  Please stay tuned to www.mlp.org for more announcements regarding MLP 
and our important work together in the coming days and weeks ahead!

  On behalf of the MLP board,

  Brian Spolarich


**It's About Time!
**

It's about time for all disciples of Jesus Christ to take a stand

for those who are still denied full participation in our church -

lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender sisters and brothers,

whom God loves and calls to faith and ministry.

It's about time to end

the task forces, studies, judicial cases, interpretations,

and other abuses

that continue the unconscionable discriminatory policies of our church.


It's about time to lay aside our fears:

Fear of the unknown - fear of schism,

Fear of those who are different.


/"God is love...there is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out 
fear." 1 John, 4:16, 18/

/
/It's about time to do the right thing,

to delete G-6.0106b which has created so much strife in our beloved church.


It's about time to trust in God's wildly inclusive love,

and remove the boundaries we have set

around God's free, unmerited grace.


It's about time to make our church a welcoming community,

where everyone has an equal place at God's table.


*It's about time!*

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