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Oor kerke wat homoseksualiteit goedkeur het RC Sproul die volgende gesê op grond van ’n vraag wat aan hom gevra is:
Jim: My name is Jim and I minister in a mainline denomination church (still) and we are racked with the issue of homosexual marriage and similar things these days, as you probably are aware. What is the path forward for the church in reaching out in God’s love and compassion but yet truth to the homosexual community around us?
RC Sproul: Well, the rule of God is that we should reach out to people of all walks of life and all circumstances and sort and that Jesus is our supreme example of reaching out to sinners, but He doesn’t reach out to them to tell them to continue with sin. So, to be loving and kind and respectful to people who are involved in what the Bible not only consider sin, but rather gross and utter sin, we are to express love and concern for them but not at the same time indicating approval.
You mentioned that you are a member of a mainline church. There are mainline churches who have, in my judgement, stop being churches on issues just like this because they will not exercise discipline in the event of gross and utter sin. When a church does that it stops being a church. In my judgement I would say that you need to get out of it if you are in a church like that.
Let me back up and just say: yesterday I was reading Calvin again and Calvin was talking about how we ought not to leave a local church or a denomination on insignificant grounds. It would have to be something of a gross and enormous transgression of Biblical Christianity. I think this is one of them. I don’t know what church it is but there are churches out there that publicly and ecclesiastically endorse abortion on demand. I don’t think you can stay inside there and try to reform if from inside. You got to get out of there.
But anyway, that is not what you asked me. You asked me how we are supposed to treat homosexuals. We are supposed to treat them with the love that Jesus would have done and we should be Christ to our neighbor and that we should be as kind and as gentle as we possibly can while we are telling them that they need to repent from their lifestyle.
(Uit NAMIBIË OP WEG MET DIE ALGEMENE SINODE?, Ferdie Mulder)