No matter what the courts decide, how a congressional vote is cast or what the gay community would like to demand of us, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, cannot condone gay marriage.The Church cannot condone gay marriage because we do not have the power to so. This is the spiritual issue at the heart of the gay marriage debate. The gay community wants to feel at peace with God without making peace with God. The Word of God has clearly declared that marriage is a covenant relationship between three parties, the man, the woman and God, (Genesis 2:24). Each party enters into the covenant relationship by their own choice. God will not enter into a marriage covenant with a homosexual couple. We cannot change the Word of God.He has been clear that homosexuality is wrong.God is against gay marriage and there is nothing the Church can do to change that.

Conclusions

The issue of gay marriage will be an ongoing challenge for the Church. Developing a full understanding of the underlying issues will be critical to being able to address the subject. This will be important in offering the world a godly and Biblically accurate understanding of God’s Word as it pertains to gay marriage.Hopefully, this deeper understanding will lead our congregations to become places of open dialogue where people can wrestle with what it means to love those who struggle with sexual sin in practical terms like how to accept the sinner and not the sin.

In order to be places of refuge our churches need to become places of safety. We will need to offer a safe place to disclose our struggles. We will also need safe places to wonder aloud about the questions of civil rights and the inequality the gay marriage debate has raised. We are called to actively wrestle with what kind of men and women God wants us to be on behalf of others who want to live apart from Him. This is an invitation to share in the sufferings of Christ by giving of ourselves for people who might never respond to the Gospel. It might also be an invitation to become part of the social change process.

As the darkness continues to overtake our culture we will need to have a clear voice of truth to speak. We will need to establish our light to be able to impart the truth to successive generations. We have been entrusted with the truth of God’s own word. As His ambassadors we have been commissioned to speak for Him sharing His grace and mercy to a lost and weary generation.


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