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To: RowdyFFC
The third (homosexual relative) is an ordained Church of Christ minister who is a missionary and lives in Old Jerusalem in Israel close to the Wailing Wall...

Also worth noting is the rosy description of your gay relative living in Jerusalem, which portrays someone living a selfless life of service to Christ. How dare we judge him!

While judgment belongs to God, to praise someone when you do not know the whole story is an uninformed "judgment" at best, and, at worst, a clever attempt to manipulate the discussion by asserting that the person is admirable and "good" - and thus we must not question the morality of his behavior.

I have also lived and ministered in Jerusalem, very imperfectly I must add. The leader of one ministry I worked with eventually destroyed his family as he finally "came out" and acknowledged his homosexuality.

For years this man's ministry and family were portrayed in laudatory terms; few suspected the real truth.

"Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart."

48 posted on 09/10/2011 10:24:28 PM PDT by tjd1454
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To: tjd1454

As for me, I render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and unto God the things that are God’s....just like I was instructed to do by Jesus through the words of Matthew...


58 posted on 09/11/2011 4:16:32 AM PDT by RowdyFFC
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To: tjd1454
The man has pretty much withdrawn from worldliness and is attempting to do much good in the Lord's name. Given the apparent circumstance of weakness regarding a behavior that is abominable in His eyes, what else could he possibly have done?

Recall that you are a sinner and fall short of the glory of God as has every single human being since Adam, outside of Jesus Christ himself. The sins of some are greater in the eyes of man than others, and some sin is abomination, but break God's law in any manner and break it all. None are worthy, all require forgiveness.

Take care not to cast a stumbling block before your brother, here. Revulsion over the sin extending into the rejection of a repentant sinner is clearly wrong.

73 posted on 09/11/2011 9:52:36 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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