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Is God's love unconditional?

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It has become fashionable in evangelical circles to speak somewhat glibly of the  unconditional love  of  God . It is certainly a pleasing message for people to hear and conforms to a certain kind of political correctness.  In the  Gay community , where some like,  metropolitan Community Church  (gay sect)  Freedom2b  and  Tony Ven Brown  all claim that  God's love  is unconditional in that they have stopped their struggle against sexual sin, given in to, and now claim they are free and have peace and are enjoying God's unconditional live. In our desire to communicate the sweetness of the gospel to people and the readiness of God to cover our  sins  with forgiveness and the incredible depth of His love that is displayed in the cross, we indulge in a hyperbolic expression of the scope and extent of His love. Where in Scripture do we find this notion of the unconditional  love of God ?  If God’s love is absolutely unconditional, why do we tell people that they have to r

Time for new form of evangelism

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Image via Wikipedia We are witnesses of a society in which, in many respects, morality has ceased to exist. We are called ever more urgently to the new evangelization of our culture. Our problem is “ moral relativism ,” which has even entered into the thinking of some theologians in the Church and which has provided an ideological foundation for a culture which is predominantly marked by violence and death. We think, for instance, of the justification of the murder of the unborn child in the womb as the exercise of the right of the mother to choose, weighing other goods, whether to bring to term the baby she has conceived; the justification of the abhorrent practices of the artificial generation of human life and its destruction, at the embryonic stage of development, as the means to obtain supposed cures for crippling or deadly diseases; the justification of the so-called “mercy killing” of those who have the first title to our care, our brother Image via Wikipedia s and sisters wh