People Vs Bait Series

I hope we each noticed that Jesus doesn't leave here there in her sin as he ends the dialogue. Instead, he calls the woman caught in adultery OUT of it. Leave this place. Go AND sin no more. You cannot treat this passage as a prohibition against naming sin, sin. It is not a prohibition from calling people from sin. Jesus did it.

Since this tragedy has taken place, I have seen the symbol of gay pride, the rainbow, almost everywhere. Behind corporate logos on T.V; on backgrounds on people’s Facebook pages; I’ve seen it lighting up the mists of Niagra Falls and the skyline around the Eiffel tower in Paris.

Let me tell you, Elm Street will NOT be putting up rainbow colored lights to illuminate our sign. I will NOT be changing the background of my Facebook profile pic to rainbow colors because of this massacre. It’s not because we are indifferent or uncaring. It’s because we believe the tragedy is in the loss of life. The same goes for this side of the equation. The fact that the people were gay or not gay is irrelevant to how we should respond. Frankly I think it is foolish for any Christian to put up the symbol of gay pride as a means of expressing love and support.

We can support the person as valuable to God without supporting the sin that corrupts them. In my mind, it means we are treating them as even MORE valuable.

So I will NOT be putting up rainbows. And I don't think other Christians should either. Instead we should share a message.

Our message:

Jesus is calling to you as a person HE CREATED. He sees the broken law. But rather than saying “I’m right. You deserve death. Jesus surrendered his rights and died to change us.” He died to remove us from sin. It was the only way for him to say “Neither do I condemn you. And it’s the only way he could say, “Leave your lifestyle of sin.”

Jesus is urging you today to accept him, and let him change you into what you were made to be.

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