…INSTEAD OF HARPING ON WHAT’S “NATURAL” LET’S TALK OF WHAT’S “NORMAL”

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It is not Scripture that creates hostility to homosexuality, but rather hostility to homosexuals that prompts some Christians to rescite some sentences from Paul and retain passages from an otherwise discarded Old Testament law code. In abolishing slavery and in ordaining women we’ve gone beyond biblical literalsim. It’s time we did the same with gays and lesbians. The problem is not how to reconcile homosexuality with scriptural passages that condemn it, but rather how to reconcile the rejection and punishment of homosexuals with the love of Christ. It can’t be done. So instead of harping on what’s “natural.” let’s talk of what’s “normal,” what operates according to the norm. For Christians the norm is Christ’s love. If people can show the tenderness and constancy in caring that honors Christ’s love, what matters their sexual orientation? Shouldn’t a relationship be judged by its inner worth rather than by its outer appearance? When has a monopoly on durable life-warming love been held by legally wed heterosexuals?” William Sloane Coffin

WE CAN’T DISAPPOINT GOD

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How unutterably sweet is the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows us completely. No talebearer can inform on us; no enemy can make an accusation stick; no forgotten skeleton can come tumbling out of some hidden closet to abash us and expose our past; no unsuspected weakness in our characters can come to light to turn God away from us, since He knew us utterly before we knew him and called us to Himself in the full knowledge  of everything that was against us. A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

The Grace Of God Is Dangerous!

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The grace of God is dangerous. It’s lavish, excessive, outrageous, and scandalous. God’s grace is ridiculously inclusive. Apparently God doesn’t care who He loves. He is not very careful about the people He calls His friends or the people He calls His church.
- Mike Yaconelli

When we see others as the enemy….

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