Resolved Question: Has this Mega-Church, Targeted by Gay Rights Group, responded in exactly the right way - free speech or what?
Churches Targeted by Gay Rights Group
http://CBNNews.com - A national pro-homosexual group has targeted six megachurches for protest and demonstration. But what they'll find at one of the targeted churches this weekend is a dinner and a discussion about Christian views on homosexuality.
Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., invited the group "Soulforce" to debate homosexual rights and gay marriage with church elders this Saturday, prior to their Sunday demonstration.
He also agreed to host a dinner for the group at his church this weekend.
"In light of the recent California Supreme Court ... View All
Churches Targeted by Gay Rights Group
http://CBNNews.com - A national pro-homosexual group has targeted six megachurches for protest and demonstration. But what they'll find at one of the targeted churches this weekend is a dinner and a discussion about Christian views on homosexuality.
Bishop Harry Jackson, pastor of Hope Christian Church in Beltsville, Md., invited the group "Soulforce" to debate homosexual rights and gay marriage with church elders this Saturday, prior to their Sunday demonstration.
He also agreed to host a dinner for the group at his church this weekend.
"In light of the recent California Supreme Court decision, we welcome the discussion with the members of Soulforce and are confident in our positions on traditional marriage based on biblical morality," said Bishop Jackson.
"We have invited members of Soulforce who plan to protest this Sunday's service to come in..
"We have invited the members of Soulforce who plan to protest this Sunday's service to come inside the church, worship, and hear the truth of the Gospel," he said...
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/380794.aspx
It may help some folk to google True Freedom Trust
True Freedom Trust
True Freedom Trust is a Christian support and teaching ministry offering hope ... Welcome to the web site of True freedom Trust. ...
http://www.truefreedomtrust.co.uk/
True Freedom Trust - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
True Freedom Trust is a religious organization encouraging celibacy among gays ... True Freedom Trust has 1200 supporters and 13 support groups for gay men and ...
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Freedom_Trust
Hi dude!
Sorry: a loud bang outside made me forget your name, but yes, thank God that 'Net anonymity helps folk open up @ all kinds of things
& true communication promotes understanding & helps stop violence
True Freedom Trust was founded in 1977 by Anglican clergyman Canon L. Roy Barker and Martin Hallett, a homosexual who had been "involved in a homosexual lifestyle" for nine years.[1] Canon Barker died in 2004, and the organisation has since been led by Martin Hallett.
TFT was a founding member of Exodus International, the international arm of the world's largest ex-gay organization
Must go out awhile
Later, 'Gators!
Now it's sunny, I'll finally head for Liverpool Streets Ahead Festival - 1st:-
C&P of yahoo @ Exodus International's success rate didn't print, but it attributes great success to 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
See http://BibleGateway.com - I'll type it out, as the sun's gone back in now:-
"Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God
And that is what some of you were
BUT you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God"
God bless!
Wikipedia says:-
Sorry: C&P failed again
Must go
Eric
As an interdenominational evangelical Bible College grad son of an interdenominational evangelical Bible College grad, I've watched an average of 3/4 hours a day of the 14 Christian TV channels - Sky *760-774
Not counting apostate RC EWTN
I've heard no 'holier than thou' stuff
All make it clear that the Bible teaches that ALL have sinned & fall short of the glory of God
& are saved only by the sheer grace of God thru faith in the atoning sacrifice of Christ @ Calvary
See John 3, Romans 3, Romans 10, Galatians 2:15-16 & Ephesians 2:8-9 @ http://BibleGateway.com
Romans 1:18-32 accurately charts the downward spiral into decadence, strating by suppressing the truth - v.18 - since what may be known @ God is plain..because God has made it plain - v.19
For since the creation of the world, God's invisible qualities - His eternal power & divine nature - have been clearly seenm being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse - v.20
21 -"For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile & their foolish hearts were darkened
22 - Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools - 23 - & exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man & birds & animals & reptiles
24 - Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another
25 - They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, & worshipped & served created things rather than the creator - who is forever praised. Amen
26 - Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones
27 - In the same way, men also abandoned natural relations with women & were inflamed with lust with one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, & received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion
More follows...
28 - Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done
29 - They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed & depravity.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit & malice
They are gossips, 30 - slanderers, God haters, insolent, arrogant & boastful; they invent ways of dong evil; they disobey their parents;
31 - they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 - Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things, but also approve of those who practise them
The Bible says "NOW is the day of salvation"
"TODAY, if you hear God's voice, don't harden your heart"
Don't miss the instant airlift Rapture of Matthew 24:30-42 & 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5:11 before the worst time ever
Revelation 9 ends, "The rest of mankind...still did not repent...not stop..."
See also 2 Timothy 3:1-9 @ http://BibleGateway.org
Revelation prophesies the classic escalation pattern - kinda like Jesus did in Matthew 24, called by many a summary of endtime Bible prophecy
Its intensifying, accelerating 'birthpains' of all kinds of natural, social & spiritual disasters - inc crime & perversion - confirm the trigger prophecy of Israel's rebirth, signalling the start of this climax generation of all history, that will see Messiah return to judge the Earth
"What can be shaken will be shaken"
"All creation groans like a woman in labour"
"God commands everyone everywhere to repent & believe the gospel"
Delay no more, folks
Ask Jesus to forgive all the wronmg things you've everthought, said & done
Ask Him into your heart as Saviour & Lord, as in John 3, Romans 3 etc
God bless!
Ian
I can't see a click to 'choose as best answer' - (for Bene so far) - so I'll leave it open for now Close All
Swallow Falls State Park near Oakland showcases Muddy Creek Falls. At 63 feet it is the largest waterfall in Maryland.
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