God Hates Nobody… Go and do the SAME!
In a recent post by Brian Jones titled “Should An Openly Homosexual Person Be Baptized? – Questions About Homosexuality (Part 3)
” he poses some difficult questions that the church has struggled with and continues to struggle. It amazes me how we respond to various types of sin and implement our own punishment on people, and then return home to our own well cared for basket of filth, acting like we’re so much better. He speaks of pastors who will refuse to baptize an openly gay person and compares that to refusing to baptize a smoker, drunk, obese, or otherwise enslaved person who although they feel their behavior is wrong, they still fall into regular patterns of misbehavior. Do we treat them the same way?
No.
Go check it out. Very interesting.
FYI - not endorsing his viewpoint either way. I still feel that openly endorsing the person sometimes can amount to endorsing their lifestyle positions which is a dangerous thing for the church to do. If you’re reading this I’d love to hear your thoughts, so please comment this page or e-mail me if you can.
