I started the weekend on Friday by having an "argument" about homosexuality with local blogger Bookstore Piet on the Cats Working blog in the comments section. Like most blogging arguments, no minds were changed, but we ended as blogging buddies. Feel free to let me know how you feel that my arguments were right on the money and that I was completely right in my assesement of all the issues presented (insert self-depricating, sarcastic tone here per below comment).
Saturday was PACKED with family stuff. B. and K. had their last soccer games of the season. C. had a b-day party to go to. The party was at the Colonial Heights bowling alley. What was interesting was C. actually bowling. With his mobility issues, C. eventually had to sit down while we rolled the ball together. The bowling alley shut off the lanes after an hour without telling anyone, because gosh darnit we'd been bowling for an hour. Nevermind there was no one else in the place.
Today we had the bombshell dropped on us by our Senior Pastor at church that he's leaving to head up the Southern Virginia Baptist Convention. Good for him, bad for us. Even with all the talk of God leading him to do this, I can't help but feel abandoned. Pastor Jeff is a great teacher and I'll miss him greatly.
Hope your weekend was good. I'm going to finish watching the Indiana Jones marathon on Sci-fi channel with my kids.
About Me
- Chris
- I'm a follower of Christ,the father of three kids, an avid Redskin fan, and typical pain in the rear end husband.
7 comments:
Uhhhhh...I guess the sarcasm of that one didn't come through? I was jokin' on myself. I pegged you for someone who'd appreicate self deprication.
BOOM! :)
I'm not really able to argue much, and as such, I don't. Maybe I'm not very courageous on that, but just don't feel I'm much of a debater. But I find it really interesting that on Sunday part of our message was about being wise to outsiders (being those that don't know about Jesus Christ): there were 5 points:
don't lead off with "If you're not a Christian, you're going to hell."
don't be condescending
don't act superior
don't be inconsiderate of their feelings
know when to shut-up (or change the topic)
Between you and me, I won't touch the topic of homosexuality with a 10 foot pole. Everyone's already agitated to no end over it when it seems way too many Christians DO come across as very condemning and hating on this particular topic. There's a book called unchristian that does a study and finds 91% of their responses believed Christianity was antihomosexual.
I also wanted to find something CS Lewis had written in Mere Christianity about marriage (more on the topic of divorce than homosexuality, but I think might relate)... and found something here that I will snippet:
he also clearly states that, as commonly believed as it is, sexual sins are not the supreme vice, but that pride- a spiritual sin- is the root of all evil.
(which I thought might be helpful for your comment regarding homosexuality being one sin of many...)
Discussing marriage from the Christian point of view, Jesus taught that man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism. The theme that we are presented with is that if “being in love” is all of a marriage, then there is no room for promise. Lifelong marriage is based on commitment to stay together, and not a feeling. Lewis also has strong feelings that it is wrong for Christians to force their beliefs about marriage on others. In other words, just because we feel it is wrong to divorce, we ought not to make such laws to inhibit those who are not Christians from getting divorced.
I hear you Chris. I enjoy a healthy debate.
As far as what our job as Christians is to point out others' sins, I don't think we have such a job. A sin is a sin is a sin. I, however, will not endorse something that is blatantly, I feel, a sin.
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