The United Church of Canada (UCC) has come up with a ten million dollar solution to declining enrollments caused by its abandonment of the gospel: an advertising campaign.
One ad features an automobile bobble-head Jesus.
Another ad has a wedding cake with two men on top, with the tag-line "Does anyone object?". Apart from God, who makes it clear that he created us "male and female" (and not "heterosexual and homosexual"), apparently not.
The UCC 's purpose is not to convert anyone, however, just bring in Christians who are floating around in society, presumably unattached to any church. Or maybe their idea is to merely siphon off the converts made through other churches' hard-fought, hard-won, efforts.
Where does this leave Jesus, who commanded His followers to "go into all the world and make disciples of all nations"?
Outside the UCC. The Jesus of Scripture is far too narrow, far too exclusive, far too fundamentalist for the UCC.
Instead, it's "come as you are", and "stay as you are -- no conversion required!".
When you consider the UCC alternative, fundamentalism is looking better all the time.
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