tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post2600445244894777940..comments2024-03-12T10:35:54.578-05:00Comments on Homeward Bound: Because I Said So!Michael Boldea Jr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09695469447648193872noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-78327219368220498102015-07-15T11:06:32.969-05:002015-07-15T11:06:32.969-05:00AMEN!AMEN!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-59284197807945462172015-07-11T17:45:31.128-05:002015-07-11T17:45:31.128-05:00Totally agree! I recently had a discussion with my...Totally agree! I recently had a discussion with my neighbor about this very issue. She attends the local United Methodist church and I had asked her what they were saying about the Supreme Courts' upholding same-sex marriage. She forwarded me an email that her Bishop had sent around, as the issue had not been addressed from the pulpit the following Sunday service after the ruling had come down.<br /><br /> In the first paragraph they said their clerics will not perform same-sex marriages, but then went on to say in the subsequent paragraphs that the same self clerics may attend same-sex marriages, post an announcement regarding the marriage in their bulletins or announce it from the pulpit to the congregation. To me that was rather a discrepancy in their stance and I told her so. She rebutted that her church allows anyone to attend their services and preaches God's love to all, even those who are still sinners, and weren't we all sinners before we accepted Christ?<br /><br />As I prayed about whether to continue this discussion, the Lord led me to I Cor. 6:7-20 which I felt I was to share with her and I did. These verses include where Paul gives a list of those who will not inherit the Kingdom of God..."idolators, adulterers, drunkards, men who sleep with men..." but he then goes on to say "and that is what some of you were but you were washed and sanctified in the name of Jesus". Paul was telling them that they cannot continue to live in their sin and expect to go to Heaven. He even went on to specifically say "Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a person commits are outside the body, whoever sins sexually , sins against their own body. Do you not know that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit?"<br /><br />Yes, we are to reach out to the lost just as Jesus did. He ate with prostitutes and tax collectors, the worst of the worst in his day, but he did not condone their behavior or lifestyle... he shared his love with them, how to become born again and and then told them not to continue in their sinful life.<br /><br />We are so lukewarm when it comes to calling sin out for what it is that it is not surprising that it has come to this. <br /><br />By the way, after I shared what I had read and my thoughts on the contrariness of what her church is saying, she agreed with me and said "what terrible times we live in." Yet, she will continue to attend this church. And we wonder why the Church has lost its saltiness and is no longer a light to the world. <br /><br />FionaBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05958762657117079451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-85456854611332442382015-07-11T08:42:16.871-05:002015-07-11T08:42:16.871-05:00I am with you on this, Brother Michael! I am in s...I am with you on this, Brother Michael! I am in shock at the churches who have/are softening their stance on this issue! You cannot serve two Gods, for one you will love and the other you will hate. How important to stay close to the Almighty, when I hear of the judgments coming (the warnings have been there! We have had plenty of time! God will do ALL HE said he would do in Deut 28 re: blessing & cursing! Anne Graham Lotz spoke well when she repeated her mother's words, if God doesn't judge America, He will have to apologize to Sodom & Gomorrah. <br /><br />In contradiction to some teaching on leaving America and running away (which sounds lovely at this time!), it isn't a call I have heard for me. I pray to discern carefully! Jonah could not outrun God and neither can we! <br /><br />Please keep up you posts, I seldom write, but I have multiple books you have written and listen to podcasts/videos you have created since I 1st heard about your grandfather, Dimitru! You are a faithful watchman! Praying for you & your family. (How is Victoria? What a blessing to be a parent, as well as concerns for them in this society of lunacy!<br />TerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-28386120325029084202015-07-08T19:06:33.869-05:002015-07-08T19:06:33.869-05:00We truly live in a land of confusion, Babel land w...We truly live in a land of confusion, Babel land where the truth has been outlawed and the wicked love their pathological liars who lead them. We are at the end stage of America's terminal illness and the only sure thing we can ciunt on now is God's promise, Psalm 9:17.<br />Those who serve the dragon of Revelation 12 and attack Israel and the Jews for their master do not serve God.Marcel Cousineauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06073839469766772568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-26697374180054891682015-07-08T17:48:43.707-05:002015-07-08T17:48:43.707-05:00Great article. Great article. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1388370369187844627.post-30904996482095433972015-07-08T17:48:25.724-05:002015-07-08T17:48:25.724-05:00Great article.Great article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com