Why Welcome a Same-Sex Couple to Church? | Christianity Today:
"Imagine this no-longer-hypothetical situation: Matt and Alex Jones-Smith, newlyweds, arrive on a Monday morning in summertime to register their adopted daughter, Rachel, for Vacation Bible School at Maranatha Bible Church on Main Street. What should be the response of the Sunday school superintendent?
1. Provide directions to the nearest liberal congregation.
2. Register Rachel for Vacation Bible School and then hand the couple Marantha Bible's statement of faith, including the part on human sexuality where homosexual behavior is condemned.
3. Proceed with registration, and then ask the Jones-Smiths, legally married in the eyes of the state, to meet with the pastor to talk about baptism and membership.
4. None of the above."
The answer is number 4: "None of the above." Number 2 might have been a good answer - "Register Rachel for Vacation Bible School" - if it were not for the added part about handing the gay couple the churches "Statement of faith, including the part on human sexuality where homosexual behavior is condemned." Answers number 1 and 3 are out, because if you choose them then you may as well go join a liberal church yourself!
But this "no-longer-hypothetical-situation" does not have to involve just a gay couple. How many sexually-active-yet-unmarried heterosexual couples bring their kids to Sunday School or Vacation Bible School? Do you want to hand them your church's "Statement of Faith," including the part on "human sexuality where sex outside of marriage is condemned?" (see Matthew 5:27, 28, as well as the following sermon on these verses: Dealing With Lust, by Pastor Robert McCurley).
Our Lord Jesus said, "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God. Verily I say unto you, whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein." - Mark 10:14,15
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When Government Tries to Be God, by Dr. David P. Murray
Why Persecution is Coming to the Church in America, by Pastor Kevin Swanson
