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As I understand it, there's nobody who doesn't offend God in some way or other, through their behaviours. To let gay people know "this is a church where you're welcome, if you want to follow God", is probably helpful for homosexual people to identify the churches they can enter and be treated just the same as any other person who performs a multitude of different actions that are offensive to God. I would imagine that very few churches actively practice a doctrine of "being homosexual is acceptable to God", but that those who do hang such flags instead practice a doctrine of "being homosexual is no less acceptable to God than being divorced". Those churches who hang those flags, perhaps have congregations who do not take any more a militant attitude towards homosexuality than they do to say adultery for instance. The reason for this, I would imagine, is because, although the bible lists a multitude of actions that are offensive to God, for some reason this particular sin is more often fiercely reviled, and those who practice it are shunned and defamed and dehumanized by many churches. This support keeps people in their sin (bondage) and tries to not condemn them at the cost of true liberty found in God's grace.Ĭlick to expand.I think it's totally possible that people who own churches and hang those flags, do so as though to say: "this house accepts sinners of all stripes", not, "sin is absolutely okay". It breaks the shackles of sin, and allows us to live unto God. So if they put this flag up in support of such lifestyles they are denying the changing power of God's grace. God's grace doesn't just by the blood of Jesus forgive and forget our sins, but it also breaks its dominion over us. Such a church is endorsing homosexuality, and not the grace of God. People associate the flag with LGBT and to put it up means you agree with their values.
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Sure, they are not condemning homosexuals (good for them) but neither are they setting them free if they permit this support as a means to justify their lifestyle. The flag is being used not as a means to draw people in but to take a political stance.
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Grace doesn't justify our sins, it sets us free from them. Putting this flag up on a church in support of LGBT is not grace though, it is actually against grace. That is wonderful and is the Gospel truth.
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You want homosexuals, for example, to realize God doesn't condemn them in Christ, that He died for them. Click to expand.Willie, I know that you're, as I am, big on grace and you don't want to alienate people from the goodness of God.