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3.4 – How ACOP’s Beliefs Have Evolved
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Like many others, the first thing that comes to mind is a definitive statement on gender and biological sex. There are probably other issues but it seems this one is incredibly prevalent and could even provide legal protection, as I know individual church’s statements regarding sexuality have afforded them in the past.
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Gender identity, and fluidity. How that will affect leadership and marriage?
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There will always be things the church may want to define in their statement of faith as important to an association because culture is ever changing and growing away from the church in this day and age. however, there should never be any dogmatic views ever added to the statement of faith. I wonder if there is a better way we can present a statement of faith without mixing dogmatic, doctrinal, and personal beliefs together as there will always be more and more differences that arise between culture and the church. yes, the church in Canada does need to address a lot of cultural changes, such as gender fluidity and other morally contradicting differences, but will adding these things and continuing to add more things to statements of faith cause division between the church and the people they are trying to reach?
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A social issue that may need to be addressed has to do with the LGTBQ+ community. Are we allowed to have Lesbian women as pastors etc. I realize the agenda the media has and the impact it has on our society. We will not be able to ignore what is happening in the world forever. How do we keep our beliefs and minister to those who disagree?
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