The ever shrinking Diocese of Niagara is busy selling properties to keep itself afloat. One of the latest is St. Matthias in Guelph.
Having no building, St. Matthias is a Community on the Move – not necessarily a move towards the Gospel, though. It is non-doctrinal, so if you decide to attend, it’s best not to believe anything in particular. All are welcome, especially those who define themselves through their sexual orientation – as long they don’t believe in anything much other than their sexual orientation.
The residents of the surrounding area are not particularly happy with the six story apartment building that will replace the church. They have even written to the bishop, imploring him to reconsider. I’m sure the $2M that is at stake will not be a factor in the final decision.
From here:
A group of Guelph residents is appealing to the Anglican bishop for the region to reconsider selling a south-side church property for redevelopment into a six-storey, 81-unit mid-rise apartment complex for post-secondary students.
“Wouldn’t that be nice,” vocal opponent Stephen Runge said Monday, noting the proposal by Waterloo-based HIP Developments Inc. requires a conversion zoning bylaw amendment. That’s currently under review by municipal staff, ultimately for recommendation to city council.
Runge is with a neighbourhood organization called The McElderry Group objecting to the proposal, which he said wouldn’t fit well with a neighbourhood of family residences near retail and parkland components close to Kortright and Edinburgh roads, nor meet the provincial goal of infilling.
“It doesn’t help the neighbourhood,” Runge said, adding it’s also such an infilling “intensification corridor.” The province’s Places To Grow goal is to slow urban sprawl with developments within cities.
There’s an opportunity for the Anglican diocese to reconsider the project it has embarked on with Hip since the church closed its doors two years ago, the Guelph group emphasized. It’s asking the diocese not to renew the deal’s terms of sale when they expire in June.
In an open weekend email to Bishop Michael Bird, the group expressed deep disappointment at the decision by the synod of the diocese to negotiate a sale agreement with HIP for 171 Kortright Rd. W., citing viable alternatives that include two offers, though less lucrative, from other local church communities. Runge said the group hasn’t received a response yet, but expects to.
“We are a non-doctrinal group of people who are living our lives and discovering what we believe; modelling our lives in the way of Jesus.”
But, but, but… Jesus was doctrinal, and he didn’t spend his life “living his life and discovering what he believed”. So how can they be modelling “the way of Jesus”? Didn’t Jesus appoint some leaders or apostles or something to at least give his followers a clue as to what to believe and how to live?
We wouldn’t want some doctrinal church who don’t live like Jesus taking over a church building, would we? Now a mosque….
This shows the results of having a so-called bishop who is clearly apostate and has no interest in the Gospel. When the shepherd is nothing but a hireling with the sole interest of financial gain you can hardly expect him to look after the sheep. This is simply further proof that the ACoC needs a thorough housecleaning to rid itself of apostate clergy.
The wages of sin are death. And death is everywhere in this story.
The church that sinfully abandoned Christ and his teaching in favour of jibber-jabber is now as dead as a stone, lies – also a sin – notwithstanding.
The diocese that did the same is now selling its seed corn. Death is written on any organisation that turns capital into running costs.
The Canadian community whose courts unjustly allowed the seizure of St Hildas, thereby ensured that more churches would be abandoned and sold, now discovers that neighbourhoods are blighted, damaging the community which reduces the tax base and points to ruin.
God is not mocked.
This is a story being played out all over Canada- and in the U.K.- its like watching a slow motion train wreck- and we are being forced to watch it- so sad that after all the effort to be in the community – after countless fund raisers-boot sales- teas-chili cook offs- etc etc to keep our light in the window for the neighbourhood/ world to see- our “leaders” are whoring off properties like a crack addict selling the family heirlooms- just so awful.
Check out the St Matthias website “Spiritual Practices”…eewwww.
I could not open their Website this morning. Looks like it is “no more” just like the building.
It is sad that this apostate Bishop just doesn’t get it. The damage continues. Jude 1:4 “For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our Lord God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”
Godless men (Jude 4) are everywhere, not just in the Anglican Diocese of Niagara. For example, one of the Board Members of a Baptist Church had an affair with a member of the congregation. Today’s Sunday attendance is down to about 100. The church is experiencing financial difficulties in supporting their three full-time pastors.