Posted on 09/09/2009 5:41:46 AM PDT by fwdude
Four billboards along Interstate 30 are sparking a debate over whether gays should be welcomed at local churches. A coalition of five churches that are part of a larger congregation of prodominatly gay Christians have put up four billboards on I-30 between Grand Prairie and Fort Worth with messages urging Christians to accept gays. One billboard reads "The early church welcomed a gay man" and another reads, "Would Jesus discriminate."
Reverend Colleen Darraugh with the Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Dallas tells CBS-11 exclusively they've been the target of controversy since the billboards went up last week.
"There are people who have told us to re-read our bible, which is the very question we're asking others to do. We've had people say how dare you take the name of God in vein," Darraugh said. The billboards will be up through the end of the month.
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John (1J2) and James (4:4) were pretty clear on man’s attempt to be friends of the world and children of God.
This is what they’re doing.
How do they melt the name of God into a spoon, suck it up into a syringe and shoot it up? I'd like to see that!
I was born with a vast attraction to women. However, God would not overlook fornication and adultery if I did not repent.
LOL!
Now THAT's a coffee-spewin' remark! ROFLOL!
“Welcome! Now go and sin no more.”
They have no power to intercede on Gods behalf if they are unrepentant sinners. And someone taking communion knowing full well they are unrepentant, blasphemous- is not a smart thing to do.
The entire philosophy of birth control, abortion and sex outside of traditional marriage is essentially the same as homosexuality. The legalization (through non-"discrimination") of "consequence-free" sex by society, including cohabitation and illegitimacy, makes society sterile.
Instead of sharing, the way parents do for children and elders, such as moving production back to communities by miniaturizing technology and spreading it around, instead the big fish of the death cult eat the little fish, driving all local production out of business in a quest for total global domination.
Thank you for clarifying that.
Gods laws, not moses's.
No, but he would tell then to stop all sexual activity, sell all they had and follow him.
When I was in college one of the favorite canned debate statements was “if two gays came to Christ and asked to be married would he do it?”
My reply was that he would have healed them, like he did with others that came to him with a disorder.
This wasn't the reply they were looking for.
I would aver that homosexuals want what we all want, to be loved, which is what we are all commanded to do. When we are obedient and love, the Holy Spirit changes and moves inside the recipient of that love.
Homosexuals are no worse sinners than any of the rest of us.
Moses’ laws applied to his people while living in the promised land. Christ came to complete the laws which God began to give Moses on Mt Sinai. The ten commandments, of which there are now 256 or so.
Liberals confuse scripture concerning the "old law" (covenant) with scripture concerning the "new law" (covenant) In that sense, yes, Christ abolished the "old law" which was Mosaic law, the old covenant which condemned everyone to death. There is also Gods laws, which were the ten commandments, which were sealed in the ark, Moses's Oral laws, which were not. It is those Mosaic laws that were meant to pass away
Of course everyone is welcomed, but a call to repentance is part of that welcome. Jesus also said “Go and sin no more”.
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Learn to spell, sweetie.
I would have to disagree with this statement. I agree that sin is sin, but there is a difference. Most people are ashamed of their sin and may try to hide it, but they don't take the name of their sin and use it to identify themselves. They don't celebrate their sin. They don't ask for special consideration and treatment because they perform that particular sin, but many homosexuals do these things.
Perhaps, once again, they are stretching what is written about in the Bible.
I’m thinking about Acts 8:26-40, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch. Perhaps they equate eunuch with homosexual.
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