Well, The Daily Beast is still letting me write for them! Here’s my latest…
According to Dr. R. Albert Mohler, America’s evangelicals are at a major crossroads—another one. It could be true, I suppose. When it comes to knowing when and where Christians are gathering at big cultural interchanges, Mohler’s pretty much an expert. As the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky—the educational Mecca for the almighty SBC—and one of most influential Christian bloggers on the Internet, Mohler has become an authoritative mouthpiece for some of the most conservative segments of American evangelicalism. On Tuesday, Mohler utilized his voice to inform his audience that “[Evangelicals] face an inevitable moment of decision, a decision that cannot be avoided… There will be no place to hide, and there will be no way to remain silent. To be silent will answer the question.”So, what pray tell is this crucial unavoidable question that all evangelicals must answer? The same exact question that evangelicals have been answering over and over again with exclamation points and all caps for as long as any of us can remember: “The question of homosexuality.” More specifically, Mohler wants to know “whether evangelicals will remain true to the teachings of Scripture and the unbroken teaching of the Christian church for over two thousand years on the morality of same-sex acts and the institution of marriage.”
Mohler went on to say that how evangelicals answer this question will showcase not only what we know and understand about the Bible, it could have a long-lasting impact on the gospel itself.
Which, of course, he’s right. How we answer this question does have its consequence. We know this because we’ve suffered the effects of how evangelicals like Mohler have answered the question for years. Heck, Mohler can’t seem to stop answering the question.
As we know, the answers evangelicals give cause division, push people away from churches, promote the gospels of arrogance and callousness, and castrates the body of Christ, rendering us useless but for punch lines.
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Why is this still an issue? Here’s how you answer the question – yes the act of homosexuality is a sin, according to Biblical teachings. Just like gluttony, arrogance, and apathy (for all the SBC’s reading this), along with a whole host of other things. What Jesus both showed us and commanded us to do was to LOVE others like we love ourselves. Personally, I love my self a whole, big bunch and I’m pretty sure everyone else feels the same way about themselves. If you’re going to focus on anyone’s sin, it should be your own and you should spend the time time you spend thinking about others by trying to find ways to love them like Jesus would have if He were here.
The hypocrisy of it all is found in how the Church disagrees on many doctrines–Wesley/Arminianism vs. Calvinism–its a debate on the very nature of God. We disagree on what happens at the Lord’s Table. We disagree on believers vs infant baptism. Eschatology. Women preachers. Dress code. Some scriptures are seen as culturally bound. Some Scriptures we simply have different interpretation. But God forbid a Christian differs on the interpretation of the Scriptures which mention homosexuality. Suddenly, your very salvation and love of God is questioned.
And then there is the fact we all know Christians who gossip and bring division. But they love God deep down. God is at work in them and will perfect them in time. But its different when those who interpret homosexuality a sin deal with a homosexual.
For some reason, its ok for Christians to bully homosexuals or anyone who interprets scriptures on homosexuality differently. By doing so, we continue to make this issue something it doesn’t need to be. And we destroy the church’s witness as we do it.
The irony of Matthew Paul Turner calling someone a bully is just too rich. Isn’t bullying other Christians your shtick, Matthew Paul?