God & Gay Rights. Articulating our Messianic conviction of compassion with standards

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1 God & Gay Rights Articulating our Messianic conviction of compassion with standards

2 Should we follow gay-affirming churches?

3 Should we follow gay-hating churches?

4 Should we follow leftism?

5 Should we follow Pinchas?

6 Should we follow Pinchas? Orthodox edition

7 Should we follow Pinchas? (Christian edition) Jesus Christ took up a whip and beat people up in his Father's temple. Now imagine if sodomites were in his Father's temple. Jesus would have killed them all. He wouldn't just have hit them; Jesus got violent!

8 Looking to God for wisdom 1. What are God s laws about homosexuality? 2. Confronting homosexuality in our faith community 3. Addressing homosexuality in the secular world 4. Apologetics: answering secular critics

9 Sexuality matters. Flee from sexual immorality! Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body but the one committing sexual immorality sins against his own body. Or don t you know that your body is a temple of the Ruach ha-kodesh who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body. -1 Corinthians 6:18

10 You shall not lie with a man as with a woman that is an abomination. God s instruction about homosexuality -Leviticus 18:22 If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination, and they shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be on them. -Leviticus 20:13

11 God s instruction about homosexuality That night, all the men of Sodom, young and old, came from all over the city and surrounded the house. They shouted to Lot, Where are the men who came to spend the night with you? Bring them out to us so we can have sex with them! So Lot stepped outside to talk to them, shutting the door behind him. Please, my brothers, he begged, "don't do such a wicked thing! -Genesis 19

12 God s instruction about homosexuality Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh are displayed as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. -Jude 1

13 God s instruction about homosexuality God gave them up to shameful passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for what is against nature. Likewise the men abandoned natural relations with women and were burning with passion toward one another men committing shameful acts with other men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error -Romans 1:26-28

14 Don t be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, those who practice homosexuality, thieves, the greedy, drunkards, slanderers, swindlers none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. That is what some of you were but you were washed, you were made holy, you were set right in the name of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah and by the Ruach of our God. God s instruction about homosexuality -1 Corinthians 6:9-11

15 It is reported that there is sexual immorality among you And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. Confronting homosexuality in our faith community

16 Confronting homosexuality in our faith community I am writing to you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother if he is guilty of sexual immorality or greed, or is an idolater, reviler, drunkard, or swindler not even to eat with such a one. -1 Corinthians 6:9-11

17 Gleaning the Word Confronting homosexuality in our faith community

18 Confronting homosexuality in the secular world I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, since then you would need to go out of the world. -1 Corinthians 5:9-11

19 Apologetics Homophobic, hate-filled bigots!

20 Apologetics God hates gays? Read your Bible; God hates shrimp too!

21 Apologetics Opposition to gay marriage is inherently a bigoted position.

22 Apologetics Love is love. Can t you just let #LoveWin?

23 Apologetics Just like civil rights for blacks! You're on the wrong side of history!

24 Apologetics Jesus never said anything about homosexuality!

25 Apologetics I have the right to marry anyone I want!

26 Apologetics God made me this way!

27 Apologetics Gay marriage doesn t hurt anybody!

28 Apologetics Don t force your religion on me!

29 Summary God s laws forbid homosexuality Show both mercy & justice in proper balance Repent from sexual sin Stand firm in our convictions in the secular world

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