Totally agree!!!
My husband had an affair last year and we are attempting to rebuild. But no church better give him a daggone service, I guess. Or anyone who takes the Lord’s name in vain. Or lies or steals. There are no sins that are ‘better’ than the other, no saying my sin is less than yours.
seems the homo-enablers and trolls are still feeding on this thread.
There are sins that are worse than others, but all sins separate us from God.
When I wrote in post 162 that I minister to others no matter what their sin without compromising my position, dsc wrote that "there are limits as to how much depravity one will tolerate." I'm glad that God is not that way and that Christ died for me while I was still a sinner. Apparently -- and I'm being totally serious about this -- dsc believes that we should not attempt to bring homosexuals to know Christ because they are so depraved. dsc seems to be very clear on that in every post. I wonder what dsc thinks of the apostle Paul, who presided over the stoning of Stephen.
Besides, according to dsc in post 161, I'm already halfway there on endorsing homosexuality anyway. I didn't know that I was such a reprobate. Not only that, but I have a superiority complex according to dsc in post 160. I guess that I'm also a "homo-enabler" according to longtermmemory in post 167.
I have a confession to make: My friend John would have been my brother-in-law if he had lived 6 months longer. I had been dating his sister for some time before I met him. His niece is now my step-daughter. My wife had prayed fervently to God many times on how to bring John out of the homosexual lifestyle and into a relationship with God, and the feeling that she received each time she prayed was merely "love him." She obeyed as did her daughter and I. The rest of his family rejected him.
And, you know what? John repented, accepted Christ, rejected his former lifestyle, and began attending a Bible study that I was teaching at our house. A few months later he unexpectedly died at the age of 30 after a cold he had turned into a particularly bad form of pneumonia. My wife held him on his right side and I held him on his left as he went to be with God.
If dsc had known my friend, John, instead of his sister, niece, and me, John would be in hell instead of heaven. That would apparently have been fine with dsc because homosexuals are too depraved for Christians to associate with them.
I need to ask dsc whether being a Buddhist is one of those sins that is so depraved that I shouldn't even bother witnessing to them. I have a Vietnamese Buddhist friend who has gone through some tough times in life. We're close friends and he now even asks my wife and I to pray for him, though he hasn't rejected Buddhism. He is very open to discussing God and says that he's one the verge to accepting Jesus. However, if our resident expert dsc determines that Buddhism is so depraved that Buddhists are not worthy of knowing Christ, then I guess that I'll have to tell him that I can no longer be his friend and wish him the best of luck on his journey to hell.
What do you think? Should I stop telling and, more importantly, showing my Buddhist friend how much God loves him and that Jesus died for ALL of our sins so that we could be free? After all, I could be endorsing Buddhism and be a "Buddhist-enabler" just by being his friend.