sorry folks I have no idea how I ended up with a “red Letter edition”-
That really says it well. For a long time now, I've been baffled by Facebook posts where someone will declare their support for gay marriage and in their very next post, mention how they went to church last Sunday. I wondered, "Do they READ their Bibles?" But I think you summed up perfectly where such people are coming from. They want the approval of the world, not of God.
I think that is something Pastors need to remind their congregation from time to time, that denying what Jesus taught is also denying him.
My church had a service on homosexuality but it was geared towards excepting gays into our community of Christ and not to judge their sins. I felt the sermon tap danced around the issue of whether the congregation should take a stand against gay marriage and whether we should also call out those who are leading others down the wrong path.
Pastor Bill, I’m a Christian woman in my 40’s who lived as a lesbian in my 20’s before I was delivered from it by the Lord’s grace, and there’s a few things on this isssue that I ask you to consider. the first thing is that it seems to me that the church in America has largely lost the distinction between being in the world but not of it. The words are embraced but not the actual practice. Above all, you can’t embrace the hopeless world’s entertainments without becoming like the world. i hear Christians all the time say it doesn’t affect them, but it does in innumerable ways. They seem to think they’re “too smart” or “too Christian,” or they’re “evangelizing” by embracing the world. One of the sad things about it, though, is that by barring Christ from reigning in this area of their lives they’re missing out on the abundant life Christ talked about. (Cont’d)
and the singer was Rod Stewart, and I came across an article that said his daughter had recently, at that time, done something like pose without clothes for a photo shoot and possibly there was a lesbian angle to it, and Stewart’s daughter said her father was fine with it and proud of her. These Christian leaders never said a word about what they had on their radios, but they are sure to have confused and discouraged the faith of many, especially children (and that has already been borne out just by looking at the Facebook pages of their own children). We may have embraced and exalted immorality like no society ever before, including Sodom and Gomorrah, and yet Christians defend and partake of these evils. How is that?
And in the particular case of the younger generation from Christian families accepting homosexualty, these young people know that some people (including some of them) experience attraction for the same-sex, and if the older Christians can’t so much as be faithful to God’s Word in (cont’d)
in something like entertainment, wearing revealing clothes, etc., and if they imitate Hollywood in thought, word, and action in their daily lives, despite what they say they believe, then why should people who feel an attraction for the same sex be literally the only ones left who the church still expects to live like “Puritans” in self-denial while everyone else gets a pass to live it up? If a Christian won’t think about giving up Harry Potter or Twilight, how can someone be expected to give up “being in love” with an actual person? As someone who the Lord delivered from homosexualty, the worldliness on sex for the most part in the church in America today, while it still preaches God’s Word, was very, very troubling, and the hypocrisy is obvious to children. I know there is a “homosexual agenda” that’s worked to destroy God’s design for marriage, the family, and sex, and liberals have advanced it through colleges and the media, but if the church was faithful to God’s Word, young people would see the lies for what they are.