April 2017 - Reading List

Drum roll please....announcing April 2017's read through the Bible books/chapters:

Gay Community?

Gay Community?

I’m not sure how I came across this article, but thought it worth sharing.  To read the article in its entirety, click HERE.

The first item listed really gave me pause for thought…

1.  I’m sorry that any of us ever referred to you as a “gay community.” Really, that’s not helpful. A “community” is a group of individuals that either live in the same place or share the same values. Sodomy (defined as unnatural and immoral sexual behavior) is not a value. Sodomy is a deviancy. Now, if you defined “community” as sharing interests and not values, then there could theoretically be a gay community because you hold unnatural and immoral sexual behavior as a common interest. However, to call you a “community” would legitimize this sin in a way that we don’t legitimize any other sin. For example, we don’t recognize “the thieving community” or the “the lying community” or “the bank-robbing community” or “the rapist community” or the “white collar criminal community.” If communities could be founded upon self-destructive behavior, those communities would be self-defeating, and a self-defeating community is no community at all. In fact, a truly “gay community” would be extinct within one generation. Your unnatural sexual deviancy leads to death; legitimate communities are self-populating and regenerative. It was a dumb term for Christians to start using, and I apologize for all of those who inadvertently give credence to the narrative that yours is a community and not a group of sinners who share in community-destroying behavior.

How sad to think we’ve compromised by legitimizing such a wicked practice.  The author continues with an apology and in 'fleshes' it out for 5 more items:

2. I’m sorry that Christians have made a habit of referring to you as LGBT or LGBTQ or by any other acronym or term, identifying you by your sin.

3.  I’m sorry that we’ve given you the impression that “self-identifying” is a thing.

4. I’m sorry that Christians have given you the impression that you can be both a born-again Christian and an unrepentant practitioner of sodomy.

5. I’m sorry that we insisted for so long that you were not born this way.

6. Finally, I apologize for all the professed Christians that you thought had convictions, only to find out that they were sniveling, driveling compromise machines. 

2017 March - Read Through The Bible

Hello saints, seems forever since I've posted....praying for the body of Christ, that we would be renewed in our mind by the reading of the Word.

To be bold witnesses for Him to those who cross our paths, either daily or randomly.  For an increase of laborers (teachers, elders, deacons) within the body.

May you be blessed as you read (and hopefully study) His Word!