Now this is an interesting post by Hamo at Backyard Missionary.
How long do you reckon it will be before homosexuality will be completely acceptable to the church? By homosexuality I mean practice of same sex relationships - even same sex marriage.
Whatever your views on this issue - and mine are pretty conservative - I believe it is only a matter of time before we see a major shift in how we view this issue.
What will the future of the church look like? How will we deal with the shifts of society? How will the church manage to navigate the topic of Homosexuality? We can stand a hard line and not be a people of love to those who need to know Christ. We can allow some to take a radical stand, dare I say a bigoted one. we can take a tolerant stand and merge the standards of the world with the standard of the church, but compromise does not allow for values to stay the same.
My point is not to debate the merits of our theology of divorce or our theology of homosexuality, but it is to observe the trend within western Christianity to accommodate the shifts in lifestyle practices with an accompanying shift in theological framing.
The danger I see is that we will not make our choices of direction with a clear mind, we will fumble along and just drift into the future without knowing how or why we have ended up the way we are. We will just as Hamo puts it
that "...the trend within western Christianity to accommodate the shifts in lifestyle practices with an accompanying shift in theological framing.
we MUST know how and why we believe what we believe and what ever we do we must position ourselves to reflect God's glory. We must move closer to him not further away.
Thanks Geoff for your comments on Hamo's post
The point has been made many times that mankind ’seems’ to tend TOWARDS sin, rather than away from it. Even God’s people in the OT, in relationship with God, tended to move ‘away’ from God. A strong case can also be made for the church, from 0-1500 ad ish moving gradually ‘away’ from, rather than towards God.
It is with this idea in mind that we do need to be wary. Just because something becomes ‘mainstream’ doesn’t mean it becomes right. Indulgences were quite wide spread in the Catholic church…but I don’t think you would find too many people who would argue FOR them now.
Does your life move towards God or away, it is not the pace but the direction that makes the difference.
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