What would be your response to a question about why you have excerpted your own material?
For starters, pray for G-d to intervene, as one would for someone with a cancer or multiple sclerosis or suffering from schizophrenia or someone suffering from autism or celebrial palsy, i figure what would be for starters. The “gay rights” activists with their obscene parades in the streets certainly don’t speak for those who are genuinely suffering from homosexualism - and those who actually are doing their very best to escape with, unfortunately, highly varying degrees of success. They need the same kind of prayer and support - not the same as approval or condoning of course - that anyone else struggling with severe personal issues needs.
We lost the culture war. The only way to fight this now is to wage an insurgent campaign against it. We need to get ownership of media like Ben Shapiro suggests and produce pro traditional family movies, etc. Maybe, one day, these media efforts will lead to a re-awakening among the people. This is no short term solution. It would take decades to change.
Well put.
If they kept to themselves and didn’t make a big deal of their “lifestyle choice”, I’d leave them alone. But when they deliberately target churches for “homo weddings” and then sue, I will not just sit and take it. Fight back!
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A former Southern Baptist Church in Ft Worth accommodated homosexual "couples" to the point of virtual endorsement of their relationship. The Southern Baptist Convention, after numerous conversations with them in the most biblical basis, finally disfellowshipped them, when this church refused to express and exercise the biblical view of homosexuality.
Look up Broadway (what an appropriate name) Baptist Church for details.
I am of the Jewish faith and perhaps I am overreaching to offer my opinion to the manner in which the Church follows God's law as I am in no position to speak with any authority on the subject but I believe any such person must be approached in a specific manner of welcome yet in quarantined sense of observation,as if one seeking membership in an exclusive club. That is, to first have any would-be members satisfy the club's requirements before having access to its privileges.
Any practitioner of gay lifestyle choices seeking the love of Christ should be held in the highest respect and consideration but kept in quarantined state in which any privileges of Church membership be withheld, told in no uncertain terms that which the Church demands the wholesale disavowal, abandonment of previous lifestyle practices before membership can ever to considered.
I don’t tolerate homosexuals. I heal them. “Tell me about your father,” I ask them, because healing begins with forgiving flawed parents. “No, you’re not gay. You’ve been listening to the wrong voices.” “No, God didn’t make you gay. Sin (stress) made you gay.”
I would say it is good practice to invite all unsaved to the Bible hour, Bible studies and any other non-worship events. That is why we exist to proclaim the Gospel to the lost.