Your post made me think of this old song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4VpI9h6yFc
B J Thomas - “No Love at All”
Read in the paper nearly day
People breakin’ up and just walkin’ away from love and that’s wrong
That’s so wrong
A happy little home comes up for sale
Because two fools have tried and failed to get along
And ya know that’s wrong
A man hurts a woman and a woman hurts a man
When neither one of them will love and understa-a-a-a-and
And take it with a grain of salt
Oh, now believe that
A little bit of love is better than no love
Even the bad love is better than no love
And even the sad love is better than no love at a-l-l
Got to believe that
A little bit of love is better than no love
Even the bad love is better than no love
And any kind of love is better than no love at all
The idea of a mutual gospel quest has departed from a lot of churches. It’s actually pretty easy to get people to sit in pews on Sunday and listen to uplifting messages, and yet never get the idea of being mutually “yoked” in Christ.
God has brought me back to one of the few (little, struggling, and yet surviving) churches that has started to go beyond.
What happens when people who know they need a yoke can’t find a good one? They often opt for bad yokes which turn out neither to be light nor easy. And yet lust keeps them there, in that hard, difficult yoke.
That’s what’s going on in the middle of sex perversion. Should the church fear to confront this? Heaven, no. We stand on promises that are as incredible to nominal religious thinkers as to walk on water would be. But, and this is a giant caveat, this kind of effort needs to be backed up with much focused, persistent prayer. This would seem to be obvious for a mission — and yet it so often gets treated as an afterthought.