(07-09-2023 06:48 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  Churches should have a big tent when it comes to reaching out to LGBTQIA+ people. But they shouldn't be ringmasters.

Exactly.

The alphabet people should be welcome, but you can't have a church filled with regulars who are unrepentant gays anymore then you can have a church filled with unrepentant adulterers or harlots.

All sexual practices outside of the marriage of a man and woman is sin. Its not unique to the LGBTQ. Sin is still sin.

ALL sinners should be welcome, but they can't be an "official" part of the congregation until they repent and become born again Christians. That is not a man made tradition, its simply what the New Testament teaches.

And again, that membership of the congregation is about that individual church, NOT a denomination. That denominational divide needs to go away. Its not Biblical, and stands in opposition to His Word.

In heaven, there won't be divided up groups of Baptists, Pentecostals, Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics, Orthodox, ect. All there will be are those washed in the blood of the Lamb as ONE BODY. Just as Christ and the Apostles instructed us to be here and now.

Any church/denomination that goes woke deserves to have the light snuffed out of it, much like the churches mentioned in Revelation. Somehow these woke churches believe they are smarter than God.