“Why Don’t We Love the Homosexual and Hate our Sin?”
- Posted on June 23, 2008
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Only 22 percent of SBC pastors believe Southern Baptists are sufficiently ministering to persons with same-sex attractions, indicating that most desire to reach out.
“I think the Christian faith has not done as good a job as we ought to of reacting redemptively toward people who are caught in the web of the homosexual lifestyle,” said Dr. Richard Land, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, during an informal dialogue at the annual meeting. “These people are not beyond the grace of God and they need the grace of God. We need to reach out to them.”
Here’s the link to the full article.
What do you think? I rather like the way he phrased the question…
According to an article in The Christian Post, Christians often say "love the sinner, hate the sin" when expressing their stance on homosexuality. But the new leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. Johnny Hunt, wants to offer something different: "Why don't we love the homosexual and hate OUR sin?"
When the public views Southern Baptists and how they deal with the issue of homosexuality, Hunt hopes people will see how they love the homosexual.
"There seemed to be ... less of what we're fighting against and more of what we all stand for," said Sam Rainer, a pastor and president of Rainer Research, in his latest blog post, as he reflected on last week's annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
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Leonard Lee on Wed, June 25, 2008
Jud, Your first comment was “Maybe when Alcoholics start doing parades and taking over Disney World for a week the Church will realize it needs to be more sensitive to them too!” This comment has nothing to do with the topic. It is castigating which means to criticize someone’s behavior. You assume as well that here at MMI we want to bend the gospel. This is not just from your comment on this thread but in the tone of many of your comments since you have been around MMI.
I never said you personally were indifferent to homosexuals. I do not know if you are or are not. I did say the church was.
I never said you do not care about HIV or AIDS. I do not know if you are or not. I did say the church doesn’t.
I said it based upon observation. Very few churches I know of do anything for HIV, for rescuing kids being seduced into a lifestyle of homosexuality, for caring for families who have members who have announced they are gay… Not because of BONO or even because of some poll. I do not really care about being popular with our culture.
As for the unbiblical things, like I said-email me and I will interact. I don’t want to take this thread off target. Again, the fact you cannot see that is sad.
The tone from the start with both you and fishon has actually shut down what could have been a great conversation about not hating our own sin within the church and how that gets in the way of engaging homosexuals with truth and grace. It shut down a potential conversation about how the church does work and how it could rescue people from sin. Instead we have to entertain accusations that we want to “bend the gospel” and how truth makes us enemies. Both of which were not on point. Then to respond with such huge defensiveness as though every word was about you. If this were the first time this kind of discussion degenerated because of you I’d say…hey no biggie. But it happens nearly every time. Kind of exhausting. I am done, if you want to engage further you can e-mail me.
Peter Hamm on Wed, June 25, 2008
This conversation has indeed, gotten pretty un-productive. Let’s all spend some time hating our own sin a little bit more, shall we?
Jud, I notice that when you respond to a post (as above when you responded to my most recent one) that you tend to go ahead and read into it (as you did very defensively—without reason—above to my post and Leonard’s) and respond by throwing the argument even further off track. Do you not see that you did this?
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