June 18, 2007 8:23 PM The Truth About Divorce
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February 2000More Signs of the End Time Taken from the “Voice of the Nazarene”, Jan/Feb 2000 Homosexual ChristiansBy Leonard Ravenhill I am angry when I read a letter from my friend and neighbor David Wilkerson announcing this nearly unbelievable perversion. “Homosexuals now claim more than 50,000 members in their ‘all homosexual’ churches.” The Metropolitan Community Church is one of the many homosexual denominations springing up across the nation. I sent an observer to one of their annual “Holy Ghost” conventions in Dallas, TX. What unbelievable blasphemy! “Each delegate, as they registered, was given a packet which included, among other things, two ‘boy’ magazines of all nude men and a list of all the gay bars in Dallas--so that delegates could leave the evening service, go to their selected bar, and connect with a lover for the night. And those delegates call themselves ‘ministers.’ How they did sing! They praised the Lord with enthusiasm; but their evangelist corrupted the Gospel beyond comprehension. He said, ‘Sure, Paul condemned men who changed the natural use and burned one toward another. But that’s not us. We didn’t change anything. We were born this way. So, come out of your closets. Be filled with the Holy Ghost, and enjoy your homosexuality!” My anger over this is intensified when I read that the cutback in federal spending will cause some old folks to miss meals. Yet the same federal folks on the 5th of May, 1981, gave the Metropolitan Community (homosexual) Church $380,000.00 of our tax money to operate four resettlement centers for Cuban refugee homosexuals. (Just let the true Church of Jesus try to get the government to give us a dime to rescue men from an eternal hell!) I am angry also when I hear preachers crying with great emotion, “Help me clean up America,” when they dare not try to clean up the Church--riddled as it is with carnality and sensuality. I am angry and grieved when preachers weep over the TV that their income is decreasing, though I’ve never seen them weep on TV over the millions of lost souls they address every week. The God on TV is an inoffensive, undemanding God, wanting to give but requiring nothing in exchange. There is no need to take up your cross and follow Him. ...The article goes on to talk about the “Mush God.” “The Mush God ... appears to millionaires on golf courses....to politicians at ribbon-cutting ceremonies...He has no theology to speak of, being a Cream of Wheat divinity. ...He has no particular credo, no tenants of faith, nothing that would make it difficult for believer and non-believer alike to lower one’s head when the temporary chairman tells us Reverend...will lead us in an innocuous, harmless prayer, for this god of public occasions is not a jealous god....The Mush God is a serviceable god whose laws are not chiseled on tablets but written on sand, open to amendment, qualification, and era-sure. This is a god that will compromise with you, make allowances and declare all wars holy, all peaces hallowed.” Author’s Note: I wonder if anyone today stops to ask why our churches are overflowing on Sunday mornings and at special concerts, but mid-week prayer meetings are usually held in the smallest room in the church? Could this be an indication that something is out of order? I once heard: · The Sunday morning crowd indicates the popularity of the church. · The Sunday night crowd indicates the popularity of the Pastor. · The mid-week prayer meeting crowd indicates the popularity of Jesus Christ. ............................................................................... Love: Love is not a feeling or emotion. It is an act of the will. An act of selfless sacrifice that no longer does what it “feels like,” but what is RIGHT. A recent survey reveals why the Church has such an identity crisis. The survey found that:
............................................................................... Thoughts to Ponder The rising rate of serial monogamy, otherwise known in our society as multiple divorces and remarriages, have become pandemic and are even alarming the secular world. The divorce and remarriage rate within the Evangelical church is now 7% higher than the unchurched world. The divorce and remarriage rate among Evangelical pastors is now EQUAL to the unchurched world. Churches and denominations today are rewriting their religious philosophy to match the corruption they are promoting. What they need to do is to adjust their conduct and theology until it agrees with the Bible, and not readjust the Bible until it agrees with their theology. Common sense tells us that a disobedient Church cannot expect unbelievers to obey a Gospel that they themselves refuse to obey. The compromising Church must return to it’s historic doctrinal position that says “marriage and permanence are synonymous: that these two words are inseparable. Whenever anyone chooses marriage, they are automatically choosing a permanent relationship.” Because it is a “covenant” whose “term” is “for life:” Try as they might, they cannot break or escape it. |
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