Creating a church environment safe for the self-satisfied, unrepentant same-sex attracted ( = tempted) is really a gateway drug to the practice of homosexuality.
I think one thing which has not been addressed in the context is, as your title says, a “repulsion” to depraved practices. As you say the church needs to be a safe space for Christians to disclose what they are wrestling with and for Pastors/confidantes to come around them and support them in their battle, but that isn’t going to happen if we don’t truly believe the desires are disgusting. Do we genuinely HATE evil? Psalm 97:10. I sadly don’t think we do!
The difficulty with these groups, and this is very prominent here, is the pastoral advice given is basically “come to terms with the reality that this is your sexuality and then learn how not to act on them”. It is demonic to say that to someone, any normal pastoral advice about any sin should be “that is not who you are anymore… so flee!”
Imagine getting someone wrestling with paedophile temptation and getting them up on stage to celebrate their desires. We have gone mad.
The battle over the dictionary continues, with the language of "SSA" regrettably inclining every discussion toward a comfortable neutrality that many Evangelicals desperately want to exist (but that never can).
Someone asked me once, 'is smoking a sin?' Well, yes of course it is since it really boils down to the wilful abuse of one's godgiven body. Thereby it's also true to say that those who advocate, practice, or promote smoking are fecilitators of such illicit (unrighteous) acts. Similarly then, the debate over whether or not the practice of homosexuality is a sin can be addressed in a similar way. It basically all boils down, does it not, to the wilful abuse of one's conscience. How come? Well, if we take the very sense of 'what is right or wrong' and break it down to its rudimentary composition this percipient sense is a connately given gift from God too. Thereby the ability to discern & logically analyse the fundamentals of what is good in this world and that which is unrighteously bad is a gift we all possess - it's the degree of suppression we adopt that determines how much sway we place individually on the illicit desires we know are wrong & those we instinctively know are right. So in the case of homosexual temptations it that sense of rightness which is being used most inappropriately. The fact some, particularly those with so-called innate same-sex temptations (desires), are choosing to allow their connate sense of what is good & what might be wrong inappropriately is the crux of the matter here. Likewise, then, all those who advocate, support or promote homosexual behaviour as normal & acceptable are also guilty of this crime.
Excellent, thank you.
I think one thing which has not been addressed in the context is, as your title says, a “repulsion” to depraved practices. As you say the church needs to be a safe space for Christians to disclose what they are wrestling with and for Pastors/confidantes to come around them and support them in their battle, but that isn’t going to happen if we don’t truly believe the desires are disgusting. Do we genuinely HATE evil? Psalm 97:10. I sadly don’t think we do!
The difficulty with these groups, and this is very prominent here, is the pastoral advice given is basically “come to terms with the reality that this is your sexuality and then learn how not to act on them”. It is demonic to say that to someone, any normal pastoral advice about any sin should be “that is not who you are anymore… so flee!”
Imagine getting someone wrestling with paedophile temptation and getting them up on stage to celebrate their desires. We have gone mad.
Always good after you!
The battle over the dictionary continues, with the language of "SSA" regrettably inclining every discussion toward a comfortable neutrality that many Evangelicals desperately want to exist (but that never can).
Someone asked me once, 'is smoking a sin?' Well, yes of course it is since it really boils down to the wilful abuse of one's godgiven body. Thereby it's also true to say that those who advocate, practice, or promote smoking are fecilitators of such illicit (unrighteous) acts. Similarly then, the debate over whether or not the practice of homosexuality is a sin can be addressed in a similar way. It basically all boils down, does it not, to the wilful abuse of one's conscience. How come? Well, if we take the very sense of 'what is right or wrong' and break it down to its rudimentary composition this percipient sense is a connately given gift from God too. Thereby the ability to discern & logically analyse the fundamentals of what is good in this world and that which is unrighteously bad is a gift we all possess - it's the degree of suppression we adopt that determines how much sway we place individually on the illicit desires we know are wrong & those we instinctively know are right. So in the case of homosexual temptations it that sense of rightness which is being used most inappropriately. The fact some, particularly those with so-called innate same-sex temptations (desires), are choosing to allow their connate sense of what is good & what might be wrong inappropriately is the crux of the matter here. Likewise, then, all those who advocate, support or promote homosexual behaviour as normal & acceptable are also guilty of this crime.