“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!
Amen Brother.
“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!”