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The Top 10 Issues Facing Today’s Church
> 1-Prayer
> 2-Discipleship
> 3-Leadership
> 4-Evangelism
> 5-Doctrine /Worldview
> 6-Apathy
> 7-Marriage
> 8-Relevance
> 9-Homosexuality
> 10-Abortion.
> April 17, 1952 - 1st Thursday in May (56th), President Truman signed a bill proclaiming the National Day of Prayer into law.
> Thursday May 3,207 the hate crimes bill would allow the law to investigate, prosecute and persecute pastors, business owners and anyone else whose actions are based upon - and reflect - the truths found in the Bible
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- America’s students are being encouraged to be promiscuous and try the joys of homosexual sex, even though the deadly AIDS epidemic continues to infect millions. Statistics by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (June 2003) have reported almost 70 percent of male infection of AIDS in America is due to homosexual sex
+ Defining Homosexuality.
> Homosexuality is a persistent preoccupation with erotic encounters involving members of the same sex, which may or may not be acted out with another person.
> Put another way, it is making deliberate plans to entertain and cooperate in sexual fantasies or behaviors with someone of the same sex.
- Why are there two radically different interpretations regarding what the Bible teaches about homosexuality?
- People have made up their minds before they have opened a bible
- Preconceived opinions and emotions tend to color the interpretations
- They make the Bible fit into their beliefs and attitudes about homosexuality
- Truth has to be the primary goal
+ Jun. 20 2006
Katharine Schori New Episcopal Head Says Homosexuality Not a Sin
believes homosexuality is not a sin and that
> Homosexuals were created by God ’’with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender.’’
> “The Bible was written in a very different historical context by people asking different questions.”
- In Other Words...The Bible Doesn’t Apply to Us
+ Using Scripture
David & Jonathan — 2 Sam. 1:26
> 2 Sa 1:26 (KJV) I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
> 2 Sa 1:26 (NIV) I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother; you were very dear to me. Your love for me was wonderful, more wonderful than that of women.
David paid tribute to Jonathan’s unselfish, caring quality when he said that Jonathan’s love for him was "more wonderful than that of women."
- David wasn’t implying a sexual relationship.
- He didn’t say that Jonathan’s love was greater than his love for women.
- He said it was greater than the love of women.
- He was simply stating that
- Jonathon’s love was so remarkable that it exceeded the kind of sacrificial love women are known to display towards their families.
- No hint of homosexual relationship
- Both were married and had families
- David was married to his sister Michael
+ Pastor Jeff Miner “Bible Says It’s OK to be Gay”
> Gay preacher
> Jesus Metropolitan Community Church
> Bible-toting
> Bob Jones educated,
> Harvard Law School
+ Problems Arising Out of Homosexuality
> 1. Alcohol and Drug
> Homosexuals use these to mask their emptiness after the excitement wares off
+ 2. Depression
> Feelings of hopelessness & despair
> 35-30% have history of major depression
> 3% Heterosexual are depressed
+ 3. Suicidal Tendencies
> 40% have suicidal thoughts
+ 4. Destroyed Lives
> Heterosexual sexual behavior found that 85 percent of women and 75.5 percent of men reported no extramarital affairs in their lifetimes
> USA Today in November 1984 reported that homosexuals have an average of 50 different sexual partners each year
Homosexualities: A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women,
by Alan P. & Weinberg, Martin S. Bell
- 74% have 100 partners during their lifetime
- 41% have 500 partner
- 28% have more than 1000
Straight and Narrow by Thomas E. Schmidt
> 75% reported that more than half their partners were “strangers
- 65% reported that they had sex with more than half their partners only once
Male and Female Homosexuality: A Comprehensive Investigation
by M. T. Saghir and E. Robins
> 50% of homosexual men over the age of 30, and 75 percent of homosexual men over the age of 40, experienced no relationship that lasted more than one year
+ Homosexual Myths
> 1. Homosexuality Is Something One Is Born With
- Homosexuality is a learned behavior, acquired
taste and personal choice, involving thoughts, feelings, fantasies.
- Theory that neurons in homosexual brains are
smaller
- 1991 study on 41 cadavers
- Only a percentage was true
- If study were to be accurate it would have to be
100%
- Study with identical twins stating 52% of the
time they are homosexual
- Again if born homosexual it would have to be
100%
Bible teach about practicing homosexuality?
> Romans 1:26-27
NIV. "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."
+ 2. Homosexuality Is a Harmless Lifestyle
False - Sexually transmitted diseases and infections
> AIDS Anal warts, herpes, gonorrhea, syphilis,
chronic liver disease, severe diarrhea, cramps, ulcers, and death
> Homosexuals are approximately 5,000 times
more likely to contract AIDS.
- 50% Homosexual males are believed to be HIV
positive
- Approximately 70 percent of those who have
died are homosexuals.
- Today the average life span of males is 75 and
females is 79
- For male homosexual it is 41 yrs.
Lesbians is 45 yrs.
> Leviticus 18:22,
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
> TLB. "Homosexuality is absolutely forbidden, for it is an enormous sin."
+ 3 Homosexuality Is Unchangeable
Pretending it is not there and is OK is not a response
> 1 Co 6:9-11Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
> I Corinthians 6:9, TLB. "Don’t you know that those doing such things have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who live immoral lives, who are idol worshippers, adulterers or homosexuals—will have no share in his kingdom."
- God is not willing that any should parish
- Rev. 21:8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Revelation 21:8 (Worldwide English (New Testament)) Some people will be thrown into the big fire which burns with sulphur dust that chokes people. These are the people: those who give in to fear, those who do not believe, those who are bad, those who kill, those with wrong ways of using sex, the witch-doctors, those who worship idols, and all those who love lies. That fire is the second death.’
- This would mean that if your are born homosexual you would never have a chance of eternal life
+ The Homosexual Agenda
> To raise homosexuality to the level of an
accepted alternative lifestyle
> Over 28 "gay" or lesbian characters or shows
are currently on during so called prime time "family hour."
> Introduce and implement curriculum in
education
> Legalize homosexual marriages
> Rights to adoption and foster care
> Open access to health care insurance, and
organized programs
> To have civil rights protection based on sexual
preference
+ The church needs to provide a Christian
environment of love, understanding, personal acceptance, and support.
