>>I have to say, as someone who did live as a lesbian, it is a terrible sight to see so many Christians speak against homosexuality and then excuse all manner of sin and ungodliness because certain sins happen to be their sacred cows.
I didn’t excuse ANY sin in my post. I simply explained that all sins are forgotten when they are covered with the blood of Christ.
So don’t try to paint me with that hypocrite brush that the pro-homosexual lobby always uses against Christians.
In context, I was talking generally about the church in America, which is substantially at the point of being offended by God’s Word and acquiring teachers for itching ears.
I recall the pastor’s wife in one church I was part of getting up to say a few words on Mother’s Day one year. She couched her words very carefully when trying to tell the congregation that we shouldn’t be watching a show like “Desperate Housewives.” She introduced what she had to say about it with something like, “now I don’t want to step on any toes, but...”
And in this church, I tried to get guidance and help as a newer Christian for temporary work I was doing at the time at a puzzle company. The company did many sorts of unobjectionable puzzles, but one of the biggest sellers was from a very popular movie that appealed to children as well as adults and had, for one thing, occult themes. I went to an elder working full-time in a teen ministry, and his take on my situation was to suggest I felt convicted about being at this company, with the suggestion I was doing wrong. I told him I wasn’t sure about being convicted, because what I wanted at that point was to discuss things with someone. I worked in the factory part, and my co-workers were people trying to earn a living through legitimate work. I wasn’t sure if I refused this work that I wasn’t casting judgment on them. Someone working in a supermarket is going to be handling and selling objectionable things too.
I wanted to discuss it all, as a newer Christian, new to this church, and a single woman who needed to support herself, and what I should do, but he offered nothing but to tell me to tell the temp company to switch my assignment. He didn’t offer any moral support or discussion, but just the suggestion that I wasn’t a strong Christian if I didn’t do this. I also went to an 80-year-old woman who had been in the church for her entire life, was well-regarded, and who taught Sunday School. When I started to tell her of my concerns about working at this place, including about doing the puzzles for this movie, she got offended, saying she had just watched the movie with her pastor son and his family. The conversation pretty much ended right there. And she had been one to talk about how the church hadn’t gone to movies through the decades, except for a movie like Joni when it was in the theaters.
So this was two people who were pillars in this church, and the price for their disagreement is simply paid by someone looking for guidance and support. And while I fault the male elder, and I also know from experience that the attitude shown by him is in large part in response to the attitude of offense shown by the woman.
You encounter this in churches, and you see this wherever Christians gather today, including here. Secular entertainment is considered holy. To expose the things about it that oppose God’s Word, as we are supposed to do, brings rage like saying certain things brings Democratic rage.