Thursday, April 04, 2013
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Todd Rhoades posts a Facebook post and asks how to react. Here is the Facebook post:
Look, there are people in the church that hate homosexuals - but most of us don't, we just know that homosexual practice is wrong. But reading this it is making more out of declaring something wrong than is really there. Saying,"You're wrong," is not hate - it is simply a declaration and it is generally born of love. When your parents told you not to touch a hot stove they were not telling you becasue they hate you, they were telling you because they love you and do not want to see you burned.
And if they are unwilling to listen to that then there are the words of Christ:
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Look, there are people in the church that hate homosexuals - but most of us don't, we just know that homosexual practice is wrong. But reading this it is making more out of declaring something wrong than is really there. Saying,"You're wrong," is not hate - it is simply a declaration and it is generally born of love. When your parents told you not to touch a hot stove they were not telling you becasue they hate you, they were telling you because they love you and do not want to see you burned.
And if they are unwilling to listen to that then there are the words of Christ:
Mark 6:7-11 - And He summoned the twelve and began to send them out in pairs; and He was giving them authority over the unclean spirits; and He instructed them that they should take nothing for {their} journey, except a mere staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belt; but to wear sandals; and He added "Do not put on two tunics."
And He said to them, "Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave town. "And any place that does not receive you or listen to you, as you go out from there, shake off the dust from the soles of your feet for a testimony against them."Technorati Tags:hating, loving
(NAS)
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