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EXCELLENT ADVICE FOR EC PASTORS LIKE JAY BAKKER

July 5, 2009

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Here it is: “Saying the same thing over and over doesn’t make it right.” You see, not so much unlike apostate monks in Roman Catholicism some EC pastors like Jay Bakker apparently like to chant. As an example let’s take the issue of unrepentant practice of sexual immorality with a member of the same sex i.e. homosexuality.

Instead of acknowledging what God has actually said on the subject homopressive “gay affirming” ECers like Bakker will often chant over and over something along the lines of:

“Homosexuality is not a sin. The church misunderstands the Scriptures. We need to re-examine them. Homosexuality is not a sin. The church misunderstands the Scriptures. We need to re-examine them…”

But repeating that tired ol’ mantra over and over, which the cult of liberal theology has been blathering years before the Bakkers et al ever came on the scene, doesn’t make it right. With this in mind, I remind them that Dan Kimball, one of those involved early on with the EC de-formation of Christianity, is recognized as one of the nicest people around EC parts.

And after his having actually put action to the above chant, in his typical quiet style quite sympathetic to “the emerging generation,” Kimball has already told them the truth. As I previously shared in Because I Love Jay Bakker And GLBTQ People Kimball informs us in his book They Like Jesus But Not The Church:

I have read just about every single book there is out there on this topic, written from both the conservative and pro-gay theological perspectives, and I have read the various studies and opinions on each of the Scriptures that mention homosexuality or that have been seen as addressing homosexuality.

I have wrestled with the Scriptures and difficult viewpoints. I studied this issue not being afraid to reexamine all I had ever been taught before and to approach it with an open mind and heart. However, after much prayer and study of the sexual ethics and themes presented overall in Scripture, I have found that I just can’t dismiss that in the Bible homosexual practice is considered a sin. (137, emphasis his)

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