Posted on 10/06/2014 4:48:11 PM PDT by marshmallow
A married couple have told the family synod that friends who welcomed their gay son’s partner to a Christmas celebration are a “model for evangelisation”.
Ron and Mavis Pirola were giving their testimony to the extraordinary synod which got underway at the Vatican today.
In their testimony they said that the “domestic church has much to offer the wider Church in its evangelising role”, adding that “the Church constantly faces the tension of upholding the truth while expressing compassion and mercy – families face this tension all the time.”
The testimony continued: “Take homosexuality as an example. Friends of ours were planning their Christmas family gathering when their gay son said he wanted to bring his partner home too.
(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
Nope.
I suppose if they were going to use this as an opportunity for an intervention.
Certainly tell them that their souls are precious. Eternity is forever -- don't give your short life in the flesh over to sin and Satan. Pray to God, through our Lord Jesus, that He will send the Holy Spirit who will strengthen you in your battle against sin. Yes - it could be very good celebration and a model for evangelism - if they use their opportunity well. Just don't worry about hurting feelings. Better to bruise now, then to burn forever.
Ezekiel 18:30b-32 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.
“Friends of ours were planning their Christmas family gathering when their gay son said he wanted to bring his partner home too.”
Note that the son and queer butt buddy were not of Ron & Mavis’ family. I would suspect that the “son and queer butt buddy” are merely theoreticals to get their 2 cents in.
Jesus set the example in Matthew 9: 10, among other places, that sinners should not be shunned.
I feel sorry for the child whose own parents would praise and welcome his destruction.
Sounds like the birth of a whole new Pagan religion is happening
THEIR choice.
Yes, He did.
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Rather "Go and sin no more" recognizes that we are ALL sinners and we ALL have sin in our lives to abstain from and do our level best to stop committing that sin.
But that's not what the gay agenda wants to hear. They want their lifestyle choice validated by the Church and thereby "normalized."
Any church that validates and normalizes ANY sin, including homosexuality is not a church of Jesus.
“take homosexuality, for example”
No, thank you.
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Looks like you’re going to have a problem. The synod is looking like it will go the way of the ECUSA
1. Yep.
2. Yes, they want to call a sin NOT a sin. WRONG.
3. True enough. It's a church of Satan (which means "adversary" in Hebrew).
And if the father was having an affair, would the other woman be welcome too? Yes, churches should reach out to gays, to help them to return to God's word, but reaching out without following scripture serves no purpose at all.
I’m afraid the Bishops are once again being cajoled to set aside their natural repugnance at sexual deviance. Many listened to psychological counselors instead of their gut and put abusing priests back into parishes. Pray they don’t make this same mistake again by giving homosexual “partnerships” a quasi-moral status under the guise of “new evangelism.” It’s repugnant!
True Christian love doesn’t condone sin or accept it. Or enable it either. That doesn’t mean a Christian is being cruel although some behave in a cruel way when they don’t accept or condone a sin.
Too many unknowns to make judgment. If both guys welcome to dinner, with understanding their relationship was not to be discussed, nor should any inappropriate gestures be performed, then perhaps one could say that welcoming them without condoning behaviors occurred. There is a very fine line in that situation.
What the h*** is “evangelisation”, anyway?
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