June 13, 2017 WWJWMTD by Steve the son of John

A Time to Speak…

My good friend Phillip Lee recently wrote an article titled, Affirm Truth—Not Culture. I have borrowed a few statements from the article but you can read the entire article at His Way Out Ministries| June 12, 2017 at 12:00 pm | Categories: Answering The Culture | URL: http://wp.me/p2bQUC-17g

Phillip states: As true faithful followers of Christ Jesus, we take the Bible in its entirety or not at all. We do not have the luxury of randomly selecting portions of Scripture and discarding the rest.

The Church must call homosexual practice sin, and that will remain offensive to many. We cannot water down God’s Word. There is no doubt our courage will be tested, there will even be times when some must stand alone and defend what is right.

As Paul said to Timothy: "At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me." (2 Timothy 4:16)

There can be no true compassion, integrity, and outreach if the Name, the teachings, the promises, the life, the death, the resurrection, and the transformation power of the Holy Spirit are not proclaimed – and, proclaimed to the virtually untouched mission field around the world called ‘the gay community’.

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go." (Joshua 1:9)

Christians are not in the business of "winning the argument." People are not argued into the Kingdom of God. What is eloquent and pierces a heart and soul is the personal testimony of someone whose life has been transformed by Christ.

Few things are more effective than people who learn how to be "a friend (who) loves at all times," (Proverbs 17:17) while not being afraid to uphold God’s truth that "better is open rebuke than hidden love." (Proverbs 27:5)

I would submit that the calamity and dilemma many professing Christians face today with regard to homosexuality is not unlike a time when Elijah spoke and said: "’How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him; but if Baal is God, follow him.’ But the people said nothing." (1 Kings 18:21)

Many know and understand the importance and significance of reaching the unreached peoples of the world for Christ Jesus. What about the unreached homosexual population?

It is the clarity of the Holy Scriptures that should compel each and every faithful follower of Christ Jesus to be a light where there is darkness, rather than hiding our witness from those who need it.

The ultimate issue for the homosexual is the same as it is for every individual. "Where do they stand? Are they dead in sin or alive in Christ?" Therefore, we must not withdraw, we must not be silent.

"If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved." Martin Luther. By Pastor Phillip Lee

“The next great revival in America will not come without the church reaching out to the gay community with love, forgiveness, truth and the power of Christ,” the prophetic voice of Dr. Steven J. Wentland.

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Dr. Steven J. Wentland www.wwjwmtd.com

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