Homosexual Church = Bible ignorance
With his booming voice and high-voltage charisma capable of working crowds of hundreds into a lather, Marcos Gladstone has all the trappings of a successful preacher. But Gladstone has something that most other Pentecostal leaders don’t – a husband.
He and spouse Fabio Inacio are co-founders of the Contemporary Christian Church, one of a handful of Pentecostal denominations in Brazil that welcome gays and lesbians with open arms and was born out of Gladstone’s dream to preach “a gospel of love and acceptance for all people.”...................................................................................................................................................................
Let’s be straight with each other regarding this "Contemporary Christian Church" run by two homosexuals. It is not a Church it is an abomination before God. Homosexuality turns our stomachs.
What usually passes for sophistication today is the rejection of common sense, of what is natural. And it is natural to have our stomachs turned by homosexuality. It is a natural reaction because homosexuality is a decidedly unnatural action. Yes, all sins deserve eternal damnation and in that sense are equal. And yes, all sins are “unnatural” in the sense that they reflect our fallen, non-original nature. But, like Orwell’s animals, some sins are more equal than others. Or rather, some are less natural than others. Adultery is an abomination in that it distorts the natural place of sex. Homosexuality is a greater abomination in that it is a greater distortion. Bestiality (double shudder) is greater still on both counts (Lev. 18:22–23).
The humble response to the sin of homosexuality is to call it what God calls it, a perversion and an abomination. And true humility requires that we respond with a shudder, “There, but for the grace of God, go I.”
We live under God’s grace. We live before His face, coram Deo. We are called, however, to live in a sense through His face, to see things as He sees things. And that means judging as He judges. When we do so we can be assured that the world will in turn judge us.
A day may be coming when we are jailed, beaten, locked up in psychiatric hospitals not for being homosexual, but for being “homophobic.” Such I will gladly suffer for my love for a Man, Jesus.
Sproul, R. C., Jr. (Ed.). (1997). Coram Deo. Tabletalk Magazine, March 1997: Homosexuality: Unnatural Selection, 2.
