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Oklahoma Baptist pledge stand against homosexuality, while offering compassion to gay
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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 2658072" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>Whose values are changing? "Love the sinner, hate the sin" is a long time Baptist principle--I know that's what I was taught back in the '70s, and I'm pretty sure it's what my great grandfather preached in the late 1800s. </p><p></p><p>This is not about changing values, it's about the messaging. A church cannot condone behavior which is specifically condemned in the Bible (and "if a dude boinks another dude, you kill them both" in Leviticus 20:13 seems to be pretty clear on that subject), but the sole mission of the church is to seek and to save that which was lost, and you can't exactly do that if you're sending the message "we hate you." That <em>perception</em> is what they're trying to change, so they can more effectively do what they're called to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 2658072, member: 26737"] Whose values are changing? "Love the sinner, hate the sin" is a long time Baptist principle--I know that's what I was taught back in the '70s, and I'm pretty sure it's what my great grandfather preached in the late 1800s. This is not about changing values, it's about the messaging. A church cannot condone behavior which is specifically condemned in the Bible (and "if a dude boinks another dude, you kill them both" in Leviticus 20:13 seems to be pretty clear on that subject), but the sole mission of the church is to seek and to save that which was lost, and you can't exactly do that if you're sending the message "we hate you." That [I]perception[/I] is what they're trying to change, so they can more effectively do what they're called to do. [/QUOTE]
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