However, people are still lost and broken, perversion still enslaves souls, homes are still destroyed, addictions still rob folks of life, the enemy still destroys, children are still enslaved, church folk still contribute to childhood sexual slavery and so much more.
But we are a tolerant lot. Open Doors, Open Minds, and Open Hearts, our defining core values today.
Who will call sin a sin and sinners to repentance, other than for the PC value of tolerance and the hideous sin of intolerance? I am afraid, "Tolerance is only another name for indifference" [W. Somerset Maugham]
"He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He sets the prisoner free," was once our core value. Now: why can't we all just get alone? The Savior bruised the head of the serpent. Quite intolerant. John 3:16 exists because of God's love being intolerant of our doomed and damned lives. "Red and Yellow Black and White, they are precious in his sight." We sang it but didn't live it. So we MUST be tolerant. But the Lord who loves us all hates sin so much the only remedy was the cross. Is that the cross Jesus called us to bear. If so, does it call us out of our pretentious vestments, prosperous pulpits, useless committees and boards, archaic and irrelevant worship, endless continuing education, and passionless living to seek and save the lost? No. We will remain content with "Openess," whilemthe church and the world fall into the grip of sin. The church!s sin: passionate tolerant irrelevancy. But we do have nice vestments and pretty flowers in the altar. Jesus came to call sinners to repentance, to seek and save the lost. But that is so intolerant, to "label" anyone as a sinner or lost. However, I am grateful the Holy Spirit is unfettered by our PC limitations. He still convicts the world of sin and righteousness and judgement. And I get to see the captives being set free!
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