Posted on 11/17/2007 8:23:40 PM PST by PAR35
FORT WORTH -- A new pictorial directory was supposed to be part of Broadway Baptist Church's 125th birthday celebration.
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But since three gay couples asked to have their pictures included, Broadway Baptist has been involved in an increasingly divisive struggle over whether allowing the portraits to appear would be an endorsement of homosexuality by the congregation.
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The church will vote in December on a proposal to allow gay members to appear in individual photos, but not as couples. The directory is scheduled to be distributed next year.
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So the retired teacher said she was "blindsided" when a gay couple arrived in mid-October and asked to have their picture taken together for the directory...Price said two other gay couples also asked to appear in the directory.
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(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
It would seem that Shoemaker is leaving a legacy of division everywhere he goes.
Well said, excellent post!
God gives us numerous opportunities, yet too often we see only problems.
When we minister to alcoholics we do not exclude drunkenness from being sin; when we minister to prostitutes we do no exclude prostitution from being sin. Why is it that some insist that in order to minister to gays we must excluded their sin?
You need to define your terms. By "Gays" do you mean those living that lifestyle unabashedly, or merely those with same sex attraction but that don't act on them?
Gay =
Rom 1:26 For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural,
Rom 1:27 and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
Rom 1:32 and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
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