Revolutionary Bishop Blasts Sinner's Prayer

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says it's "heresy" to believe that an individual can be saved through a sinner's prayer of repentance.

The controversial leader made her opening address to the church's General Conference in California. She is an outspoken liberal who promotes other non-Biblical beliefs, like same sex marriage. Jefferts Schori called that "the great Western heresy: that we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God."

According to Schori, it is heresy to believe that an individual's prayer can achieve a saving relationship with God. "That individualist focus is a form of idolatry, for it puts me and my words in the place that only God can occupy."

Meanwhile, six Episcopal bishops are pushing for greater recognition of same-sex marriages at a national gathering of church officials in California. Bishop Thomas Ely of Vermont says he and other bishops from states recognizing same-sex marriage will offer a resolution urging the church to adapt marriage rituals to include homosexual couples.

Ely says the resolution will be introduced at the church's General Convention, which started Wednesday in Anaheim. The convention is held every three years.

Besides Vermont, politicians and courts have legalized same-sex marriage in the states of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Connecticut. The public has never voted to legalize it in any state, or country for that matter. (Even California citizens voted it down when given the opportunity.) Realizing this, homosexuals continue to push their agenda in through the back door. See Chick's WHY NO REVIVAL?