tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206875.post2015914562746568221..comments2023-03-27T05:18:35.108-07:00Comments on Envision Presentations: Homosexuality and JesusJames T Woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13870789574689752112noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206875.post-34397109178339172482011-03-16T11:43:59.569-07:002011-03-16T11:43:59.569-07:00Mark, I'm happy to continue the conversation w...Mark, I'm happy to continue the conversation with such thoughtful people.<br /><br />Greg, yes. What more can I say. We need to have healthy ways to engage in conversation and conflict within the loving boundaries of the church. <br /><br />Kimberly, thanks for your kind comments. I actually continue this series on the blog. <a href="http://powerpointforpreachers.blogspot.com/2011/03/homosexuality-and-church.html" rel="nofollow">Here's the post where I discuss the passages in the bible</a>.James T Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13870789574689752112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206875.post-871729646423222552011-03-15T20:30:27.447-07:002011-03-15T20:30:27.447-07:00James,
I like what you have to say. However, it w...James,<br /><br />I like what you have to say. However, it would be a more powerful message if you could include scripture related to what you mention to pull it together.<br /><br />I agree with what you are saying, because, I believe you're correct. It's refreshing to read and know there's others who feel the same way I do.<br /><br />We should love people, not hate them, right?achildofthekinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16431322348633034092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206875.post-56991659618599934872011-03-10T16:35:13.824-08:002011-03-10T16:35:13.824-08:00James, I read yours and Mark's blogs and appre...James, I read yours and Mark's blogs and appreciate what you have to say. In our Christian circles we do have too much judgment and not enough grace and love. I also appreciated Mark's use of the Corinthian letters. These letters also include Paul's instruction to the church to banish a man who is unrepentant in his sexual sin. I gather from the tone of both of your articles that neither of you are talking about this kind of willfully unrepentant sin within the Christian community. We all sin and struggle with different aspects of it but are we admitting it and working on it? Even in church discipline, however I believe we should make every effort to do this with the utmost love and grace and do all we can to seek restoration, even throw a party when someone returns.PastorGregOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07755409080252934679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13206875.post-80860840340200492502011-03-10T11:33:53.699-08:002011-03-10T11:33:53.699-08:00James,
You are kind, and I appreciate the acknow...James, <br /><br />You are kind, and I appreciate the acknowledgment of my post. I'm glad so many people seem to have found it helpful.<br /><br />I think you are correct, that Jesus is always interested in reaching out to the undesirables; particularly those that everyone just doesn't even want to make a possibility of working with. <br /><br />One time I heard David Fleer talk about the good Samaritan and he was telling of a sermon he did about the "good homosexual." Though I think the comparison breaks down at some points, the objections that might raise in our minds points to the true nature of what Jesus was getting at, I think.<br /><br />I hope this conversation will continue, because I think it is worth having.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06984816237837609105noreply@blogger.com