April 12, 2013
Clear Choice
My niece is using Facebook
to garner support for her homosexual lifestyle and those who aren’t supportive are
accused of being intolerant and bigoted. What I find absolutely amazing is that
these alternative-lifestyle folks are really asking people of faith to choose
between them and God. When I look back over my family tree I see people who struggled
with sin in the form of alcoholism, drug addiction, and sexual immorality, but I’m
struck by the fact that not one of them ever petitioned the family to accept or
support their lifestyle. It’s interesting that even in the church some
believers have gone beyond simply embracing their loved ones to embracing the
gay agenda. There are consequences for believers who bring sinful agendas into
the fellowship of believers. Jesus said, “Things
that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom
they come. It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea
with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little
ones to sin.” (Luke 17:1-2 NIV)
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2 comments:
Well said. Honest compassion needs to be honest.
Grace and peace
Gail;
-----There is a place in the church for homosexuals and alcoholics and drug addicts and such. It is the same place for the rest of us. It is carved out by confession that we are wrong and God is right, that our words are musings and His are truth. By keeping to our place in the admissions of all the stupid stuff we do, we elevate the Word the only way we can, bowing down to it in as much submission as we’ve availed by the corrective process of repentance.
-----Sometimes that does not look like enough for some people. But the truth about a person is not clearly apparent in what he is seen doing. Looks are deceiving. Where a person’s core stands relative to God is more definitely exposed by what he pushes for. Jesus’ statement might even go a step beyond. Pushing is deliberate. Things are bound to come through some people. I might be wrong, but I sense Jesus being deliberate about even what might more passively come. Children caught doing the wrong thing often give one last attempt at achieving their ambition by an accidental cause. It’s kind of a deliberate carelessness. And it’s still a push. I see loathsome carelessness with both God’s Word and man’s ways in the church.
-----I don’t think the deliberateness needed to approach God could have been expressed better than you did. Some people repent immediately, becoming amazing saints directly after being rancid rebels. Others stumble a lot and flounder around. But common to both is a deliberate pushing of the self in a direction of obedience to the Holy Bible. Common to others is the push away from it. The direction of the push is not difficulty discerned. Then we are compelled by His Word to either push with or against what we discern, either “Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Look to yourself, lest you too be tempted,” (Gal 6:1) or, “Any one who goes ahead and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God; he who abides in the doctrine has both the Father and the Son. If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting; for he who greets him shares his wicked work.” (II John 9-11)
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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