By Juan Valdes, rforh adjunct speaker and writer
Go ahead and drop the stones—nobody is going to be stoned to death today in a church where Christ reigns! Christian churches should strive to be Christ like. If we look at the life of Christ, He never modeled the hostility that we often find in the midst of the 21st century Church especially on the topic we’re discussing today, homosexuality.
Homosexuality is a sexual sin, absolutely, but it is no different than adultery, fornication, or any other sexual sin. How did Jesus deal with sexual sin? There is an amazing passage in the Gospel of John where we find Jesus modeling the Godly response to sexual sin. Jesus’ dealing with the woman caught in adultery (John 8) is a clear point of reference of how we should be handling this issue. In His response, Jesus addressed the sin, the sinner, and the role of the believer, albeit not in that order.
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