Posted on 06/26/2015 11:16:43 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater
As I write this, the Supreme Court has handed down what will be the “Roe v. Wade” of marriage, redefining marriage in all 50 states. This is a sober moment, and I am a conscientious dissenter from this ruling. The Court now has disregarded thousands of years of definition of the most foundational unit of society, and the cultural changes here will be broad and deep. So how should the church respond?
First of all, the church should not panic. The Supreme Court can do many things, but the Supreme Court cannot get Jesus back in that tomb. Jesus of Nazareth is still alive. He is still calling the universe toward his kingdom.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I will not kneel, I will not bow ...to SCOTUS or 0bama.
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC,
1. Mine eyes have seen the glory
of the coming of the Lord;
he is trampling out the vintage
where the grapes of wrath are stored;
he hath loosed the fateful lightning
of his terrible swift sword;
his truth is marching on.
Refrain:
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
2. I have seen him in the watchfires
of a hundred circling camps,
they have builded him an altar
in the evening dews and damps;
I can read his righteous sentence
by the dim and flaring lamps;
his day is marching on.
(Refrain)
3. He has sounded forth the trumpet
that shall never call retreat;
he is sifting out the hearts of men
before his judgment seat;
O be swift, my soul, to answer him;
be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
(Refrain)
4. In the beauty of the lilies
Christ was born across the sea,
with a glory in his bosom
that transfigures you and me;
as he died to make men holy,
let us die to make men free,
while God is marching on.
(Refrain)
5. He is coming like the glory
of the morning on the wave,
he is wisdom to the mighty,
he is honor to the brave;
so the world shall be his footstool,
and the soul of wrong his slave.
Our God is marching on.
The picture you needed to post was the one where Old Blood & Guts was pissing into the Rhine. I’m sure that’d be his opinion of the Supremes (well, 5 of them).
Your delusional.
Yes, but the war between heaven and hell has already been won.
When you say pastors should drop sermons about the four horsemen of Revelation, does this mean you are preterist? I.e., the belief that all prophecy was fulfilled back in 70 AD...including the four horsemen? Please clarify.
You’re bizarrely naïve, deep in denial, and rejecting of Scripture which tells us this is exactly what would happen.
I know what the final score will be. However, I weep for what the country I loved and served has become. Piss Christ has gone from weirdo art to mainstream thought.
“Some returned to their womenfolk from certain death, while others were tortured and refused to be ransomed, because they wanted to deserve a more honourable resurrection in the world to come. Others were exposed to the test of public mockery and flogging, and to the torture of being left bound in prison. They were killed by stoning, by being sawn in two; they were tempted by specious promises of release and then were killed with the sword. Many became refugees with nothing but sheepskins or goatskins to cover them. They lost everything and yet were spurned and ill-treated by a world that was too evil to see their worth. They lived as vagrants in the desert, on the mountains, or in caves or holes in the ground.
39-40 All these won a glowing testimony to their faith, but they did not then and there receive the fulfilment of the promise. God had something better planned for our day, and it was not his plan that they should reach perfection without us.”
Knowing the final score is great, but being sawn in two will still hurt...
Amen, Patton, I’m with you 100%. I didn’t figure you was coming from a preterist standpoint. With enough Patten’s around we can really make a difference. God doesn’t have to have a majority.
I hoe this link works
Some words of wisdom from the president of the LCMS
http://blogs.lcms.org/2015/synod-president-responds-to-scotus-same-sex-marriage-ruling
Amen.
I have no intention of being sawed in half; I do intend to go down fighting should it come to that. However, we’re not exactly to that point yet, so I wouldn’t worry about such shenanigans.
I see what he’s saying but... A friend is an associate pastor at a midsize church. He said losing 501c would cost them 40% of their total budget. And there will be a huge push to take that within the year. We know God’s work flurishes under persecution, but will we look back and say, “I’m glad we didn’t panic but I wish we had sensed the urgency more.”
“We believe a previously dead man is alive, and will show up in the Eastern skies on a horse.”
I guess that is pretty weird.
You can fight--hard--without panicking. Panicky people say/do really stupid things while flailing about. Focused fighters can quickly turn the tables on an unsuspecting attacker.
We lost this bout, but so what? It isn't the first time Christianity has lost, nor will it be the last. The temptation to avoid now is to lose all hope. To withdraw in defeat. Look around some of these threads. I see it in a great many FReepers. It feels hopeless because it's meant to feel that way. You can go along with that feeling, or you can remember the big picture and continue moving along.
I would like to point out the current religious affiliations of each member of the U. S. Supreme Court:
There are six Roman Catholics currently serving on the court (Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas) and three Jews (Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagen).
Nary a Protestant Christian.
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