'Christian Leaders, Please Speak the Truth about Homosexuality Plainly And With Love'
Jul 18, 2017 by Rik Bokelman - HELLO CHRISTIAN
"To my brothers and sisters in ministry, I appeal to you in the sight of God: Please speak plainly and clearly when it comes to homosexuality, and please do so with compassion and love." That's what dr . Michael Brown writes in a new blog post.
"If we don't lovingly warn that gay couple in our church about the wrongness of their relationship, we have their blood on our hands."
At this critical time in history we've got no business dancing around these life and death issues, he writes. Issues which affect people we love.
"We've got no business playing games with words, trying to be so subtle that no one understands us, working so hard not to offend that we fail to warn and save.
We've got no business being unclear when God's Word is so clear, and we've got no business calling ourselves representatives of Jesus when our hearts don't flow with His love."
"Just consider what's happening in our society today. Drag queens are reading stories to our two-year-old children in libraries. Kindergarteners are learning about being trans."
Christians are afraid that if they speak up we'll lose some tithing members, Brown writes. "What kind of compromise is this? Are we mercenaries or are we men and women of God?"
Christians are afraid that if they speak up we'll lose some tithing members, Brown writes. "What kind of compromise is this? Are we mercenaries or are we men and women of God?"
"How about speaking the truth in love – with tears, with compassion, and with care, but without compromise? True compassion is not silent. True compassion warns."
"When people ask me about reaching out to the LGBT community, the first thing I tell them is to ask God for a supernatural baptism of love for them. Love reflects the heart of God. Love reflects the life and death of our Savior. Love 'bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things' (1 Cor. 13:7)."
"But love doesn't compromise. If it did, it would no longer be love."
"If we don't lovingly warn that gay couple in our church about the wrongness of their relationship, we have their blood on our hands."
"If we don't lovingly warn that gay couple in our church about the wrongness of their relationship, we have their blood on our hands."
"If we don't tell that lesbian-identified teenager that God did not make her gay, offering her real hope in Jesus, we are contributing to her demise."
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"If we don't urge that husband not to leave his wife and have sex-change surgery, telling him we'll get in the trenches and stand with him for his marriage, he can point to us on judgment day: 'They never told me it was wrong!'"
"So, I'm pleading with you as a fellow-leader and fellow-elder and fellow-servant. Let us stop dancing around the greatest spiritual and moral challenge of this generation, and let us do the right thing, regardless of cost or consequence. We owe it to God. We owe it our kids and grandkids. And we owe it to those who identify as LGBT."
https://hellochristian.com/8556-michael-brown-speak-the-truth-about-homosexuality-plainly-with-love?
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