Okay. Have you taken YPT?
Do you think anything you describe is not adequately covered by that training?
Is your question one that nobody ever considered before the policy change?
Do you believe that the new policy condones sodomy?
Do you think the new policy condones rape?
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I'm not talking about some situation in the future where the "perceptions of the day" are different than today.
I'm trying to deal with today's perceptions. Today's reality.
I'm well aware of the constancy of God's Standard and Satan's unyielding attempts to steer culture further and further away from God.
Who will stand up and fight? If not me, who?
I believe that elite institutions, along with individuals who act based on Godly Principles - out of the public spotlight - CAN and SHOULD influence thought-leaders, policy, and the law far more than elections. I believe in the POWER of God to change hearts and minds.
This is one of the principle reasons why Christians are here during this AGE. We are to show people a more excellent way. We are to demonstrate and declare God's Love for them. We are to lead them to the Cross and then the Throne of God so that, in submission and obedience to Him, they willingly conform to the image of Christ!
What else would I do?
If I retreat from the fight, am I serving the King?
If I do not tell a sinner that God loves him and that he does not need to be ruled by sin - am I serving the King of Glory?
I don't think so.
This is one of the principle reasons why Christians are here during this AGE. We are to show people a more excellent way. We are to demonstrate and declare God's Love for them. We are to lead them to the Cross and then the Throne of God so that, in submission and obedience to Him, they willingly conform to the image of Christ!
... What else would I do? If I retreat from the fight, am I serving the King? If I do not tell a sinner that God loves him and that he does not need to be ruled by sin - am I serving the King of Glory? I don't think so.
Though we disagree on which course to take, I respect and admire your position. I encourage you to continue to post on FR your experiences with this topic over the coming year. God may very well work with the faithful remnant who choose to stay affiated with the BSA and even turn matters around.
Ezekiel 33:7-9 (NIV, 2011) 7 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the people of Israel; so hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. 8 When I say to the wicked, ‘You wicked person, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak out to dissuade them from their ways, that wicked person will die for [a] their sin, and I will hold you accountable for their blood. 9 But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.
But what happens when the parents of the same-sex afflicted scout objects to your Christian ministry on this matter and present their case to the local council scout executive?
Matthew 10:14-16 (NIV, © 2011) 14 If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet. 15 Truly I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than for that town. 16 “I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.