Posted on 10/20/2014 2:46:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There is a point where decision on contentious, difficult issues is unavoidable. With respect to homosexual conduct, the American Evangelical church has reached that point.
There is no ignoring the determination of the gay and lesbian activists to insist upon complete social and legal normalization of homosexual conduct; from the adoption of children by same-sex couples to the judicial recognition of same-sex unions as marriages every bit as complete as those enjoyed by heterosexual couples. Thus, Christians cannot avoid the need to decide which side they are on.
The Supreme Court's decision earlier this month to allow current judicial rulings on same-sex marriage to stand is not the final blow to natural marriage some believe it is, but it does give the issue new and unavoidable prominence.
Fidelity to scriptural teaching on human sexuality has become, for believing Christians, a watershed issue. Issues involving same-sex marriage and homosexual behavior are for today's Evangelical community what the inerrancy debate was in the late 1970s.
Even as Evangelicals gently but firmly speak the truth about God's teaching regarding human sexual conduct, they need to extend the mercy of Christ to the homosexual men and women God brings into their lives. If Evangelicals have homosexual neighbors, they need to treat them with the same warmth and respect they should treat anyone else. If their kids become friends with children raised by same-sex couples, those little ones should be welcomed as eagerly as any other child. If one's homosexual colleague is in the hospital, visit him, do his yard work, drive him home, and so on....
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So that’s why there’s been a world-wide uproar about this for going on four decades? That’s why the RCC has lost billions in church offerings and many, many members, which even they acknowledge? You can bury your head in the sand or site other denominations’ problems, but that doesn’t change the truth or the image that is in the minds of most people around the world. You can say that I’m anti-Catholic or some other nonsense, but that doesn’t change the problem that the Catholic Church has with paedophiles. Not one bit.
Apparently you didn’t read thesecond sentence in my post. IN NO WAY am I condoning the Homosexual lifestyle and I hope Christian Pastors hold onto to God’s Word. I would remind you that Jesus himself came to Earth to seek and to save those who are lost.
Would they be as Judge Gilbert Breedlove, who is also an ordained minister? Judge Breedlove resigned his post when it became mandated in North Carolina to perform same sex marriages? One has to wonder...
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