Which makes your point “All people will one day be held accountable before God for everything we think, say and do. The Word of God will be the standard.” Absolutely rock solid. People are flawed to the core and often we see it most clearly within a church.
Where I was going is “Keep the government out of it”. Period. Right or wrong the people involved should be able to choose in “their” church what is acceptable for them to tolerate so long as it is within the law.
I don't agree at all with all of the church fracturing because as your point here is spot on “True Christians (those who have been born again by the Spirit of God) want to live by the Word of God. As a believer grows in the grace and knowledge of Jesus Christ, a lot of things he formerly believed or thought to be true will be seen for the rubbish it really is and be thrown out by that person. A belief in a superior race, or a belief in an inferior race, is one of those “rubbish” things”.
God will judge whether they made the right decision (not government) is all I'm trying to say and I'd say I've done a poor job of it.
I am a KJV born again father of 5 with a loving faithful wife of the same beleifs. It breaks our heart to watch all of our Church's fracture around us.
“Where I was going is “Keep the government out of it”. Period. Right or wrong the people involved should be able to choose in “their” church what is acceptable for them to tolerate so long as it is within the law.”
Thanks for clarifying...
The Church, the body of Jesus Christ, has a great responsibility that we have failed in, and that is to call sin sin and to stand up against the sin which is rampant in our society, and shamefully, in our own local churches. We are told to do so in the epistles of the New Testament, in 1 Corinthians for example. And Jesus also did it.
God has already judged whether they made the right decision—it’s in His Word, the Bible. They made the wrong decision, and the pastor could have stood up to them and told them that racism is not of God. God created all men (includes women) from one and put them in their boundaries and in their times that they might know Jesus Christ. At the last judgment (for unbelievers) it is the same Word that will judge them.
Praise God for the forgiveness of our sins that we have in Jesus Christ! And praise Him for the fact that all who
trust in Christ have been raised up with Him to walk in newness of life in the power of His Spirit, right here on earth. May we study His Word so we can know the truth and tell others, as His Spirit enables and guides us. Time is very short!