Welcome to church!!
We are so excited you’re joining us for worship. Whether you’re here with us in person, or tuning in online, we believe that God has a word for you today. If this is your first time visiting, or maybe you’ve been coming for a while but haven’t taken a next step to let us know, we can’t encourage you enough to fill out Connect Card at one of the green tables at wour Welcome Home area in the lobby, or go to the PATHWAYS tab at the bottom of the screen in the Life Church app and fill a digital Connect Card in the FIND FAMILY section. As always, never hesitate to let us know if there’s any specific way we can be praying for you!
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 NKJV
BOOK - AFTER THE BALL
PHASE 1: DESENSITIZATION
“To desensitize straits to gays and gayness, inundate them in a continual flood of gay-related advertising, presented in the least offensive fashion possible. If straits can’t shut off the shower, they may at least eventually get used to being wet.”
PHASE 2: JAMMING
“Make the bigot believe that he or she will be shamed and ostracized for rejecting homosexuality.”
PHASE 3: CONVERSION
“Ironically, by conversion we actually mean something far more profoundly threatening to the American way of life, without which no truly sweeping social change can occur.
We mean conversion of the average American’s emotion, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media.”
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12:2 NIV
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-10 NKJV
There is a sense in which sexual sins are different from all others. In sexual sin we violate the sacredness of our own bodies, these bodies that were made for God-given and God-modeled love, for “becoming one” with another. Or didn’t you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don’t you see that you can’t live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for?
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 MSG
Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
Genesis 1:26-27 NLT
“But at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife.
Mark 10:6-7 NIV
“In human as in most animals or plants, an organisms biological sex corresponds to one of two distinct types of reproductive anatomy.. In humans, reproductive anatomy is unambiguously male or female at birth more than 99.98 percent of the time. No third type of sex cell exists in humans, and therefore there is no sex ‘spectrum’ or additional sexes beyond male and female. Sex is binary.”
—Wall Street Journal, The Dangerous Denial of Sex February 2020 Colin Wright, Penn State Evolutionary Biologist and Emma Hilton, Developmental Biologist University of Manchester
“The large majority of gender dysphoric use eventually outgrow their feelings of dysphoria during puberty.. Affirmation therapies, that insist the a child’s cross-sex identity should never be questioned, and puberty blocking drugs, advertised as a way for children to ‘buy time’ to sort out their identities,.. only solidify feelings of dysphoria, setting them on a pathway to more invasive medical interventions and permanent infertility. This pathologizing of sex-atypical behavior is extremely worrying and regressive.”
— Wall Street Journal, The Dangerous Denial of Sex February 2020 Colin Wright, Penn State Evolutionary Biologist and Emma Hilton, Developmental Biologist University of Manchester
“A woman must not put on men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing. Anyone who does this is detestable in the sight of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 22:5 NLT
RELATIVISM:
“There is no absolute truth. Truth is relative, and what is true for you may not be true for me.”
SEXUAL REVOLUTION:
“If it feels good, do it! Ultimate fulfillment is sexual fulfillment.”
RADICAL INDIVIDUALISM:
“Everyone gets to write their own script for life, and creates their own identity that others must validate - you can’t judge me!”
BIBLICAL RESPONSE TO RELATIVISM:
Truth is absolute, and it comes from God and his word.
Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.
John 14:6 NLT
BIBLICAL RESPONSE TO SEXUAL REVOLUTION:
Ultimate fulfillment is found in surrounding our lives to Christ and following his plan for our life.
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
BIBLICAL RESPONSE TO RADICAL INDIVIDUALISM:
God has the blueprint on how to live life. I don’t change God to fit my beliefs, but rather I change to fit into God’s truth!