In our world today gay marriage has became an extremely controversial topic, which is now causing churches to get shut down and leaves the christian faith extremely frowned upon. The gay community, and the people who support the gay community do not appreciate what the bible says about homosexuality, and they are finally getting sick of it. Forcing pastors to marry gay and lesbian people, and even the situation in Houston, Texas, shutting down churches if their sermons discriminate gays at all. Brian Houston is the Senior Pastor at Hillsong Church, which is now a worldwide church with locations in New York, California, and their main campus which is in Australia. Hillsong is an extremely influential church, and is where a lot of churches get their worship music from, for Hillsong is a very musically talented organization. Recently Hillsong has been bombarded with their view on gay marriage, particularly Pastor Brian, who decided to speak on the subject. He said “Its very easy too reduce what you think about homosexuality to just a public statement and that would keep a lot of people happy, but we feel at this point, that it is an ongoing conversation, that the real issues in people’s lives are too important for us just to reduce it down to a yes or no answer in a media outlet. So we’re on the journey with it.” That is a very respectful response in my opinion. The problem with this is the government is bombarding the church with questions and accusations, and the only right answer is what the government wants to hear. For example what if murder all of a sudden became legal, and the government asked the church their views on murder. And the church said well it says in the bible right here that murder is wrong, then the government would instantly be against the church, its the same situation with gay marriage, churches are getting shut down for disagreeing with the church. What happened to the first amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of religion? The church now doesn't have freedom of speech or religion. If the government is listening and they hear something they don't like they can just shut the church down, that doesn't sound like freedom. On the other hand christians do seem to discriminate against the homosexual community, making them feel unwelcome. But if thats the case then liars shouldn't feel welcome in church either because the bible professes that lying is sin, and it is wrong, so why is homosexuality so different? Why is it that liars feel welcome in church but gay people aren't? Were all sinners so whats the difference? I think the difference is the christian community in general tends to get more on the gay peoples case than the lair, or stealers, or lusters. I think we give gay people a much harder time because they are different than us, when in reality we are just as much as in sin as they are.
Bailey Carter, this is a solid write up. You asked the hard question, why does the church accept every other sin including divorce but not homosexuality? The answer is the church should accept all sinners and sin but we should never not call it sin and we should always continue to call sinners to repent of their sin.
ReplyDeleteThis was very good. The whole time I was thinking what about freedom of speech and religion. That was great question to ask. Homosexuals feel excluded from the church, but they also feel uncomfortable in the church because we teach against it. But what about all the Christians that feel uncomfortable around them? We do not see the government sticking up for us.
ReplyDeleteYou made a great point when you stated that "the only right answer is what the government wants to hear." That honestly points out a huge problem with our government.
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