I think there is a real issue in terms
of sinful behaviour — but I'm not convinced that we have adequately judged in this area.
Examples like Paul's mean that Betel often advises churches to be more challenging to people in addiction, and not
condone sinful behaviour, at the same time as being loving and supportive.
-- Neither my relationship nor my orientation is reduced simply to
a sinful behaviour.
They also tend to overemphasize the Love of Jesus as justification without abandoning
the sinful behaviour.
Pointing
our sinful behaviour in love is something the Apostle Paul advocates us to do.
in an organised way despite
their sinful behaviour which damages others... blah blah blah..»
If I said you would need to empty your heart of every brick that lay in it... If I said you would have to repent of
all your sinful behaviour and turn to do only good and be made into the likeness fo Him... would you do it?
It is right for the church to draw the line at harmful and
sinful behaviours.
The sexually impure behaviour of some Christian leaders who brazenly deny that their immorality is wrong, or who fail to demonstrate genuine repentance even when
their sinful behaviour is revealed, has caused outrage.
As well as imagining
the sinful behaviours that enraged God enough to inspire the flood, there are fantasy elements that might seem more at home in Tolkien, a slimming - down of Noah's family and more aggressive opposition to the ark - building than the Children's Bible might suggest.
During the 1990s, when reports of child abuse on a mass scale began, he and Pope John Paul II effectively dismissed them, safe in the knowledge that the priesthood grants men special graces, such as aversion to
sinful behaviour.
You don't have to agree with their views, but from my reading of the covenant, TWU appears to be sincere in its convictions and is not setting out to oppress gay people, but ultimately the bible says what it says — that any sex outside heterosexual marriage is
sinful behaviour.