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Should LGBTQ+ People be accepted into our worship?
How is being LGBTQ+ any different from lying, murder, sexual wrongs?
All these are welcomed in our church.
If God loves everyone, why is it an issue being gay?
Must speak to any issue with truth and love
We are a New Testament Church
We strive to follow we follow Patterned Theology
Resources
Homosexuality: Society, Science, and Psychology by Jeff Miller, Ph.D. apologeticspress.org
The Bible Does Have Something to say About Homosexuality, by Dr. CarI Bridgess: bibletalk.tv
What is Sexuality For?
Procreation
God designed a woman to be a help meet for the man
Functionality because man and a woman had to fulfill the mandate to multiply and fill the earth had to have a differentiation.
A man could not fulfill that with another man (same for a woman)
Fidelity or Loyalty
One flesh
It’s not just an individual preference
Any Sexual Relationship Outside the Matrimonial Bond Between a Man and a Woman is a Sin
KEY SCRIPTURES
NOT THAT MUCH
We dealing with only a few verses
Not tolerated by Jew or Christian (obvious and a grievous sin)
Counting up the number of verses on a particular topic is not the best way to determine the seriousness of the sin involved
Jesus said nothing about homosexuality
Red writing over black writing.
Must look at the Bible as one story
PORNEIA
NOT THE SAME
· Loving, life-long, committed, and monogamous partnerships
· Prostitution
· Pederasty
· Exploitive relationships
· General language not distinctive
· Passages in rooted in creation account
· Arsenal, Coiti (man who beds with other man)
· Romans 1 – consumed with passion
· Romans 1 – lesbianism
· Exchange natural relations
NOT A BIG DEAL
We disagree about when to have the Lord supper, how many songs to sings and how many stanzas
Porneia is in a whole different category
Sexual sin is never treated as a matter of indifference
8 vice list in NT Porneia is a part of and at the top
Not the main thing the Bible talks about.
Tolerating homosexuality leads to disaster
Place for broken People who hate their brokenness
Should LGBTQ+ People be accepted into our worship?
How is being LGBTQ+ any different from lying, murder, sexual wrongs?
All these are welcomed in our church.
NOT FAIR
· No one chooses to be this way
· Consign me to a life that’s not loving
· No strong evidence for biological reasons (what about an abundance of testosterones)
· Lonely miserable, never have a hug, never touch anyone, no roommate, no meaningful relationship
· Sin is not made acceptable because they feel natural to those who engage in them
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God loves us all John 3:16 (homosexuals are not exclusively broken)
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But this a part of me.
Don’t see it a brokenness.
I celebrate it, the world celebrates it.
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What only matters truthfully is how God see us.
God does not see us as one part of us, is all of us.
This is how you may be experiencing life
Appeal to another authority outside the Bible – our own experience.
· Gay and Lesbian friends think that we have this marriage, and we want to restrict it and they can’t have it because we’re selfish and self-serving and want to keep it to ourselves
· Not saying that we don’t want you to be married-we saying it’s imposable based on God’s divine instruction and blueprint
· This is not private – you framed it civil rights issue (religion violating civil rights)
· If marriage is based on “love
· All legal decisions are based on principles and established precedent
o Right now, the principle is “all you need is love”
o So, if marriage is based on popular opinion and who loves each other (any conceivable union is ok)
Harm is not always immediate.
Monogamous relationship
If God loves everyone, why is it an issue being gay?
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