Silence Can Be Harmful

My sermon title for Sunday: What Jesus Said about the Gay Issue.

Do we really have to talk about this?

Yes! We do!

Silence is part of the problem.

We have let the bigots set the agenda. The preachers who know the truth have been afraid to say the truth.

Some preachers were shocked when their United Methodist congregation voted to leave the UMC.

But so many of these preachers had never led their people toward the truth.

The Gospel must be proclaimed! We must be willing to speak God’s unconditional love for all people.

We must make it clear that, with God, there is neither “male nor female, Jew nor Greek, slave nor free.” Nor gay or straight.

These are not categories that God cares about.

We must be willing to say that Paul was wrong and Jesus was right on the issue.

But did Jesus even talk about it? Yes!

And quite clearly.

We will look at the passage called “Jesus’ definition of marriage” this Sunday.

What he ends up saying is really interesting: that one size does not fit all. He lays down the rule and then says it can’t apply to everyone.

Why? Because people are different.

People come in a variety.

People have different needs.

The law was unbending.

But love meets us where we are and takes us to where we need to be.

This Sunday at 11:00—and after that on recording.

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No concert this month.

Christmas Show in Dec.