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What to do with churches that accept openly gay churchgoers?
The compromise Catholic Bishops will make on openly gay families: "We are trying to find a language that does not betray the teaching of the church, but will perhaps express it in ways that are not so offensive," Cardinal Francis George, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in an interview.
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The Southern Baptists are to be greatly commended for their stand for biblical morality. Not many churches have the chutzpah to do so today. They are on solid scriptural ground: “ . . . what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?” (II Cor. 6:14)
Their focus on the sin of homosexuality is justifiable because of the tremendous public pressure being put on churches (and all institutions) to accept gay everything. Yes, they should be consistent by including other grievous sins, which I believe they are. But there is an urgent and pressing need for those who love God’s Word and Law to take a firm stand against accepting and condoning wickedness of all kinds.
We are commanded by God to love and receive into fellowship and Sacramental participation ONLY those who repent of their sins (whatever they may be), and are seeking grace to obey God’s commandments. There is absolutely NO WAY that homosexuality can be squared with biblical standards of morality. All attempts to do so by liberals are just smoke and mirrors, using absurd interpretive techniques. Such churches and pastors have simply caved to secular humanism and PC lobbies, having abandoned the authority of Scripture; and should no longer bother with the label, Christian.
May God grant the SBC grace to hold fast to biblical truth!
Posted on November 13, 2006 8:39 PM