Jesus always used truth as a
to help people and never as a
to hurt people.
We can get the truth right, but get the message wrong.
Why LGBTQ people left the church:
3% — Church believed same-sex marriage was wrong
18% — They didn’t feel safe
14% — A relational disconnect with leaders
13% — Incongruence between teaching and practice
12% — Unwillingness to dialogue
9% — They were kicked out
“Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.” —Ephesians 4:15
“Haven’t you read that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female…. For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh?” —Matthew 19:4-5
Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and the sexually immoral. —Hebrews 13:4
“The fact is that there are plenty of genetically influenced traits that are nevertheless undesirable. Alcoholism may have a genetic basis, but it doesn’t follow that alcoholics ought to drink excessively. Some people may have a genetic predisposition to violence, but they have no more right to attack their neighbors than anyone else.” —John Corvino
“After desire is conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full grown, gives birth to death.” —James 1:15
It’s never a good idea to base your
on anything other than
.
“Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who have sex with men, nor thieves nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” —1 Corinthians 6:9a-11