Campolo highlights questions youth are asking regarding gay issues in the church.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
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6 comments:
I find it hard to believe that a person such as Campolo can continue to repeat the same fallacies over and over again which have already been refuted such as the "Jesus never said anything about homosexuality" argument. The truth is Jesus upheld the moral law AGAINST the Pharisees dismissing the moral law with their traditions. (Matthew 5:17)
It is seriously fallacious to say "our belief in Jesus Christ transcends this issue" as if two people can believe in Jesus and then argue that such a common belief implies that you can ignore the moral law of God.
However, he is correct about the divorce issue. There is a great deal of hypocrisy in the church which is so quickly to tolerate and accept divorce and yet condone homosexuals.
But, two wrongs do not make a right. We ought to uphold the Biblical standards for marriage AND divorce and seek to help those with broken relationships or a broken sense of self and sexuality.
Sorry, I made a typo... I should have said:
"However, he is correct about the divorce issue. There is a great deal of hypocrisy in the church which is so quickly to tolerate and accept divorce and yet CONDEMN homosexuals."
So we should excommunicate (or stone) the divorced and homosexual?
Daniel,
According to the apostle Paul the unrepentant should be excommunicated.
Paul’s entire basis for excommunicating the man having sex with his father’s wife is the Old Testament Law. Both the prohibition (Leviticus 18:8) and the penal sanction of being cut off from the people (Leviticus 18:20) for the sin is enforced by the apostle. (cf. 1 Corinthians 5:1, 13) In fact, Paul tells them to “purge” the person from their midst which is the same language used by God, that if they committed these sins the land would “vomit” them out. (Leviticus 18:28) Jesus Himself uses this exact same language of the unrepentant church – that He would come and judge them and vomit them out! (Revelation 3:16)
True liberty is not the found in the abandonment of God’s moral law and order, but in obeying it by grace through faith in the power of the Holy Spirit from the heart for the glory of Jesus Christ. It is for this that Christians, who are a New Creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) and are members of the Kingdom of God, have been called. (Ephesians 4:1)
So, you think we should be excommunicating the divorced and gay?
Even though they may be living as faithfully as they can....
As usual, Tony C. gets to the heart of the matter.
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