Loving Homosexuals To Death...

Yet people who lie are in our churches. People who covet are in our churches. People who steal are in our churches. Adulterers and whoremongers are in our churches.

 

==They should not be (1Cor 5:9-13). People who fall into the groups listed in passages like 1Cor 6:9-10 are lost no matter how many times they attend church every week. Apart from true repentance and faith in Christ there is no salvation.

 

[What Martin said]

 

Yet we'll take their tithes, let them serve on deacon's bords, let them fill our pulpits. As long as they're not gay, divorced or (heaven forbid) female, they can do about anything they want to in a Baptist church.

Please, tell me more about how we are supposed to preach the unapologetic Gospel...

 

Great Post. :thumbs:

 

I think people miss your point because you came out firing. I think I am in agreeement with you, if this is your premise. We should get off our Christian high horses, oppose sin, but do it in a way that doesn't close doors to the lost? Treat people the way they should be treated and stop shooting ourselves in the foot by acting like arrogant fools? If this is so, then I'm in total agreement.

 

And I would add that when we oppose sin, we oppose all sin, including governmental inequities and injustice -- and even if that government is our own.

And we need to quit fooling ourselves into thinking "we" can change anyone. Even if I wanted to, I cannot make a gay person straight. That's God's job, God is good at what God does, and we are lousy at it.

 

==No Bible based church would knowingly allow that to happen. Maybe an apostate church would, but no Bible based church.