When I am out of sycn (part 10)

There is in this country diversity. Diversity of sexes, diversity of races, diversity of disabilities, diversity of religion and all this is wonderful. Some of the diversity I have no choice in. That is I have no choice to be born female, white, with back and heart defects and Kippel Fiel syndrome, but I do have the choice to be Christian, and to call myself just a Christian. How many of us are afraid, including myself, not to acknowledge the fact that if one is in a denomination and don’t call themselves just Christian what a danger that is to destroying unity of the body? How many are afraid not to call all those that say they believe in Christ a Christian, even though James says it takes more than that (James 2:19-20)? That does not mean as so many would say that there are certain groups that are the only Christians. What it does mean is that God doesn’t want just part of my worship, part of my heart. He wants the whole thing. Nor does He want me to embellish what His son established because others won’t like it otherwise. He does want me to take Him as He presents Himself in His Word. And if there is any doctrine that doesn’t go in accordance with His word or adds to or subtracts, that is an erroneous and vain doctrine and I must not espouse it.

And there is in this country diversity of alternative lifestyles. My brother was gay. He openly said so, and called himself Christian. There are those denominations that would agree with him. And the government agrees with him. It saddened me to hear that I cannot even speak to tell gays they are in sin, but gays can tell me that I am narrow-minded and cruel. Gays can tell me that God wouldn’t punish them and that Paul was wrong. What is erroneous in this? If Paul is wrong, the bible is wrong, because God said that all is sufficient for life (2 Pet 1:3-8). I cannot take a little here and a little there when it pleases me.  I am in danger not walking with God if I espouse the way that any man or group of men think I should live, to be sure. My focus must be on God or I will sink.