Well, maybe those people needed to leave. Somewhere there’s a church with a rainbow on the sign where they’ll be right at home.
You can count on the vast majority of Pentecostal and charismatic pastors to hold the line against sodomy. In any pulpit where the Holy Spirit is taken seriously, there will be a hard stance against sin and cultural deterioration. There’s a sifting going on.
I could see this happening in a mainline church, but very shocked this has reached the Assembles of God. I guess the cultural indoctrination has gone very deep.
Christians who cannot follow the word of God have no business being in church in the first place.
God is separating the wheat from the chaff.
God’s word is a sharp double edged sword which separates the wheat from the chaff.
That congregation, and many others, may have difficulty sharing a message of purity beyond “just don’t do it.” God created sex to be a huge, huge positive. While there are conventions of polite society, being overly prudish can also put an unnecessary wet blanket on what the good Lord made.
It probably isn’t the doctrine nearly as much as how it is presented that is the problem in a setting like this. There are a host of issues tied up with sex in this fallen world, that shouldn’t be, but the devil has warped and polluted it and people have too easily accepted that — even “normal” people.
Let them go. They will face God one of these days with the desire to place their child over their Lord.
3/4 of my brother’s entire congregation (Presbyterian) left after the Pastor declared himself a liberal and then declared he would perform gay marriages no matter what the congregation said. He said they had to consider other view points.
(The majority’s doesn’t count I guess.)
The church is now in free fall financially. Church has been there since 1850.
We may be at the start of the “Great Apostasy.” A number of signs are being made manifest; the positive attacks upon our Lord, the murder cults such as abortionists and suicide lovers, the growth in disbelief, the rise of a false religion such as Islam, the active suppression of any expression of Christianity. Fell free to add to the list.
The church needs the “Well....Bye” attitude about some people.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. --Ephesians 6:10-13
Love the sinner, hate the sin. Walking out may show love for the sinner, but does not show hate for the sin.
It seems they can’t endure sound doctrine.
Staged, most likely.
I wonder how many of those had attended the church before their pathetic hysterics.
Well maybe they should go to freakin Dave & Busters or something instead!
preach it pastor.
I highly doubt it’s how it was presented and just a matter of many of today’s believers have not made Jesus LORD in all areas of their life and heart. Jesus said those who have ears will hear Him. A pastor’s tone or wording will not be important if the Truth of God is being spoken and people are there to hear Truth.
Just as many couples with christian belief choose to live together without marriage, also against the word of God.
bible tells us walk the narrow road not the wide (world based one). Not so easy when we have entertained thoughts against the word of God repeatedly and they start to seem better than the word of God.
They believe that men obtaining sexual pleasure from other men by shoving their pee-pees up the other’s poo-poo is just clean Christian fun.
They also believe that a woman can pleasure another woman in a similar fashion.
This, to their warped minds, is not a sin that they’ll have to answer for.
They have rejected God and their appearance in churches is just for show.
Think how many would walk out if the pastor endorsed the LGBT agenda. Many have.
Almighty God says that homosexuality is an abomination.
We pray for the sinner and hate the sin. Unlike Islam, who hates the sinner and throws them off the nearest rooftop.
Liberals treat church as asocial gathering. They’ll flip them off in traffic right outside their church. I lived in a liberal area near several churches and the libs were terrible people.