A bit of a storm rose over Steve Chalke, a prominent pundit ( I am banishing the word evangelical due to loss of meaning) advocates Christians need to show more tolerance and encourage Gay monogamous same sex relationships. Mr. Chalek engages in typical biblical revisionism to justify ignoring scriptural authority and need to repent of this sin and receive the Forgiveness of sin that come though Christ.
Mr. Chalke doing a great disserve to homosexuals by loving and tolerate them in continual bondage and eventually to hell, rather proclaim freedom from the slavery sin and forgiven by the proclamation of the gospel. It is like Mr. Chalke seeing a drown man; instead of throwing him a life ring, he says peace to you I tolerate and love you.
This got me think what should be the right way the church homosexuals at their door. I can say there are two wrong ways first being bludgeoning them with the law without the gospel , like Westboro Baptist Church but on the same side is loving and tolerating them with law light.
The right question and way I am inspired by Bishop Lawrence’s Address to the Special Convention as expanded by Chris Rosebrough of Fighting for the Faith:
“But I must say this again and again. This has never been about who is welcome or not welcome in our church. It’s about what we shall tell them about Jesus Christ, his mercy, his grace and his truth – it is about , what we shall tell them when they come and what we shall share when we go out.”
The question is not will we allow homosexuals culture in our church but what will we tell them; will it comfort in bondage to sin and to damnation or will we tell them the Gospel, about while they their sin (like all of us) Christ died for them the righteous for the unrighteous. Roams 6 1-2 is a good cross reference on sin. How cans Mr. Calke even call for an understanding of Homosexuality and neglect proclamation of repentance and forgiveness of sin though Christ.
AS I side note what writing this reply I thought of the following verses as a reply to Christians.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
English Standard Version (ESV)
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
No I have to confess many in evangelic churches; the quote Verses 9 and 10 but leave out the key verse 11. That was us yet we are washed, sanctified and justified by Christ how can we even talk of Compromise.
