I’m not a rally kind of guy
Protests for this and marches for that—not my thing
BUT for this issue, I’m compelled to be out here. The church needs to be salt and light! I must speak, and will speak the truth in love!
If I stand by in silence, It would not be loving to families who want a safe and secure future with moral values.
If I stand by in silence, it would not be loving to children who will be experimented with and tempted to try a harmful and shameful lifestyle.
If I stand by in silence, it would not be loving to the man or woman wrestling with same sex attractions not knowing there are better answers than the politically correct ones.
Paul the Apostle addressed Felix the Pagan Roman Governor regarding righteousness, self-control and the judgment to come. (Acts 24:25) I am compelled to do the same for this increasingly pagan culture…. There is a right and wrong here! We need self-control; For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God and this is my appeal:
I say as compassionately as I can to those trapped in the sin of homosexuality there is hope in Jesus but that judgment will be more severe to those who approve of it and dare to redefine marriage to accommodate it.
Predictably some hate us for this—oh how they hate us—but we will not give in to hate—AND WE WILL NOT hate them by being silent!
We must and will arise and risk reputations and careers and even our own lives for our children.
You see our founding fathers modeled for us that we are to see ourselves as stepping stones for the next generation.
When a culture begins living for itself and does not care about the effect upon their children and their children’s children then at is a sign of the end of the line.
The line is drawn here in NJ. The church needs to awaken and sound the alarm that the ship of state is about to hit a dangerous reef: TURN THIS SHIP AROUND!!
Just because you call something marriage does not make it so. God made marriage!
The apostle John was imprisoned on island of Patmos, he says, for the Word of God & testimony of Jesus. Pagan Rome rejected both at the time. He held true to both and offended the pagan world and suffered for it! But in the end that light of the gospel outlasted Pagan Rome. Today we visit the Roman ruins and the church stands strong.
Angry? Yes I am!
But not at the poor misguided souls who will stand naked before their maker and give an account.
I am angry with the media elite and those who control them, who point the camera’s eye and with clever editorial deceive the people over this issue.
I am not angry at young people who have been confused over their sexuality in this overly sexualized culture.
Rather I am angry against the politicians who have prostituted their position and would accommodate sin for their power base. They would attempt to buy me off me with a religious exemption. They say, “You can still freely speak.. in your churches. But stay on the reservation!” I say to them that they can keep their religious exemption! I don’t need it! I wont stay on the reservation!
I am angry at them who call evil good and good evil
But most of all I am angry with myself and my fellow pastors.
For if we were shining our light as Jesus instructed us we would not be in the moral darkness that so envelopes this state.
If we all held up marriage to the high honor it belongs as a type of Jesus and His bride and taught people well the art of self-sacrifice and self-denial, to stick it out and raise godly children we would not see so many willing to meddle with it.
Study after study shows that children need both a mom and a dad.
Research reveals that the majority of men and women in marriage are faithful to those vows while faithfulness in homosexual couples is negligible. Is this stability for a child?
Research and common sense shows children far more likely to engage in sexual experimentation in same sex households.
According to the American Sociological Review 12% of daughters of lesbian couples become active lesbians and 9% of sons of homosexual fathers were homosexual.
That is a 400% more chance of being homosexual raised in homosexual homes. Tell me, is this behavior not at least in some way influenced by environment?
I appeal to this assembly to not erect a false hope that redefining marriage with create equality. Because calling same sex relationships by the name of marriage will not remove the guilt of those who participate and it will endanger a whole new generation.
Children should not be guinea pigs to be used in social experiments to redefine marriage and family! They are vulnerable, impressionable with unique emotional and developmental needs.
I beg this assembly to not deny children a mother and father in this state. New Jersey will pay a heavy price for such an experiment!
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