For a while, I have been paying attention to how Christian leaders play a word game to ambiguous views on hot buttons.
Vocabulary: “Sofistory”
My favorite word for this is “SOPHISTRY”. Sophithry is one of the strategies of the devil's deception. Because it depends on the incorrectly smuggling of the true appearance.
Christians can learn to detect sophisticated use by paying attention to the operation of words, especially for homosexuality, to obscure the truth. As more and more churches are starting to affirm it, faithful Christians want to know in advance that the church is teaching it.
Therefore, church's beliefs and practice in homosexuality have become a “litmus test” for Christians who are considering new churches. Bible's Christians want to guarantee that they can teach appropriate doctrine. But church leaders do not always want to say what they believe.
At best, they really want to contact people with gospel. They don't want someone to turn off with a tough attitude toward sexuality. In the worst case, they are more interested in nurturing churches than to be faithful to God's words. In many cases, it is difficult to convey to send a mixed message.
Complex Facebook message
My friend recently sent me Facebook message screenshot From another church about the church's teaching on sexuality. This message was a double -contradictable double ward salad that requires skilled and identified power to solve. After reading this message, I was impressed with how vulnerable to many Christians in a sliding message that is deceived to consider churches as literally solid.
In this era of confusion, the people of God need a clear truth, not avoidance.
So I wrote this post. I wrote this and showed the delicate thing that was developed to invite Christians into churches that compromised in doctrine.
This is a message:
Hello … Our church is in a historic position -one man, one woman, married, for life. But we love and welcome everyone, regardless of the social and economic class of races, age, or sexual orientation. We believe that God has a plan and purpose for everyone. In fact, our mission as our church is to teach us to reach all people and have a relationship with God to get better. We do not eliminate those who attend our church, attend groups, or attend churches. Our goal is that our church is a safe space for people to ask strict questions, giving priority to Jesus more than the theological agreement.
The first sentence is “Bible food”
The message starts with the Bible bait: “Our church has a historic position of sexuality. One man, one woman, for marriage, for life.”
You can hear it firmly, right? Well, not. It is a bait intended to build trust. They support “historical positions on sexuality” and reassure that this church is reliable.
There are two problems with this. First, the historical position explained here is too narrow. The Sexuality of the Bible is not limited to the definition of marriage. Their narrow definitions will remain open for many theological novelty in areas that are not directly related to marriage, such as accepting “sexual orientation” as legitimate ones (for that soon). ).
Second, the remaining part of the message disables the first sentence. Their actual practice is Opposition “Historical position”.
How do you know?
One of these is different from others
Look at the second sentence. “But we love and welcome everyone, regardless of race, age, social and economic class, or sexual orientation.”
“However” at the start of the sentence is a big one. It probably indicates pivot from historical position to non -Bible custom. The way they actually do things as church sounds more like a day training than the Bible. Note how to mix the personality of four different categories: race, age, class, and sexual orientation.
What do you notice about them?
One of them is different from other people。 Race, age, class are do not have A moral category. There is no moral thing about your ethnicity, age, and class. “Sexual orientation” but teeth A moral category (the Bible does not talk about homosexuality like that).
“Sexual orientation” is a modern invention to justify immoral behavior. It is certainly not a “historical position” of Christian religion.
We “love” and “welcome” all people
The sentence also says that the church is eager to “love and welcome” all above. What does that mean?
It means that someone's homosexuality is not more important than someone's ethnic, age, or class. The Bible accuses sexual immorality, but this church gives a “sexual orientation” protected position. Hello, my name is “Gay Crystichan。 ”
This is a standard DEI language always used by the HR department. By listing the moral category and non -motor category of the personality, they all look morally neutral. Therefore, calling someone to repent of homosexuality is like calling someone to repent of their ethnicity.
As a result, the church makes a contradictory statement. On the other hand, he claims to believe in a historical position in sexuality. On the other hand, it never promises Activity As I believe. No one is called to repent of homosexuality.
As the message continues, this fact becomes even clearer.
“Safe space”
The last sentence is, “Our goal is our church Safe space For people to ask strict questions, and we prioritize Jesus love over theology. ”
“Safe space” is a UP song expression that “no repentance is required”. Probably, this commitment, which provides a safe space, indicates that people are treated specially and gain the status of victims of homosexual sins. In fact, people who confront the sins of gay do not make the church “safe”, so they are more likely to be corrected.
Theology is not an enemy of love
Also, be aware that “love for Jesus” opposes the “theology agreement” as if the theology is an enemy of love. Modern Christians often lack the true duty to reduce “love” into sentimental wealthy things and seek the highest profit among others.
But how do you know the meaning of loving people from what God's words say? And how do you know what God's words say without reading and studying it? It is aology. If you do not define love in the Bible and theory, pop cultures and Disney movies define it for us.
In other words, you need aology to define love. According to Jesus, we love him by following him. Jesus said, “If you love me, you will protect my commandments” (John 14:15).
Make “difficult questions”
The last sentence also states that the author's author wants his church to be safe for people to ask difficult questions. Church leaders always use this “difficult question” language, but does not mean what it means.
If I didn't know well, “asking a difficult question” has people who can provide a Bible and theory of guidance through questions of our worship, such as evil or trutic questions. I think it means.
I guarantee you, that doesn't mean it here.
In this context, “difficult questions” means dissatisfaction with God and church. The idea is to judge God and his church by evil and see himself as a victim. In other words, unprecedented people will decide by slandering Christ's brides. Of course, the church does not ask Any Difficult questions. After all, the church has now become a “safe space.” The church's job is to “love” and give a good atmosphere.
Conclusion
When you see churches and pastors speaking like this, we need to recognize that this is a flashy marketing to protect panders for distrust.
Please do not fall.
This essay was adopted from the article Initially released At Michael Claries Sub -sack。
