How do you explain a nation that resolutely opposed ‘gay marriage’ at the polls (32X) then ushered it in boldly last Tuesday?
You could cite Obama’s slide as America’s; he started 4 years ago resolute in his ‘Christian’ commitment to marriage then unraveled. He became the first US president to champion ‘gay marriage’ last May. Did he lead America into ‘gay marriage’ or just reflect the superficial faith of many? Chicken or egg: discuss.
Last Tuesday, the Church laid an egg; she chickened out, big time. How else do you explain the stats that most avowed Roman Catholics in the USA now support ‘gay marriage’? Or the evangelical drivel that ‘we cannot legislate morality’? Are you kidding? Every act of legislation is a moral decision!
We so want a tolerant Jesus that we edit the truth that He is the Creator and Redeemer of all, which implicates our gender, our sexuality and what we do with our bodies. Supporting ‘gay marriage’ declares that we have no understanding of what it means to be human, made in His image. So we settle for a ‘feel good’ Jesus who does not mess with us. In truth, Jesus messes with us at the core of our affections and motives so that we don’t mess up others, including murdering the unborn.
Jesus indicts America’s cowardice with ‘gay marriage’ and a new host of pro-abortion leaders led by Obama himself.
It’s not too late. Last Tuesday sounded an alarm. Will ‘we wake up from the dead and let Christ shine on us?’ (Eph. 5:14)
I had a dream last night of a bright-eyed young pastor serving an ailing church in Boston. Due to the pastor’s disavowal of ‘gay marriage’, the church elders took away his keys. But he had a key, shaped like a cross. His ‘cross-key’ gave him free and ready access to the church that mere men could not stop. Many joined him, and a vibrant renewed church emerged from the dying one.
My friend and colleague Josh Glazer woke up. He led his Maryland-based ministry Regeneration to pray and fast with us over these last 40-days. He writes: ‘I’ve been humbled to have my own cowardice and compromise exposed–masked as compassion, busy-ness, humility, and the pursuit of being ‘relevant’. Also, I’ve become increasingly aware of something akin to a spirit of delusion over our land, blinding us to the true fruit of the unnatural desires we’ve been embracing.
The shining moment of this fast for me was when a spirit of fear was broken. The Lord showed me my cowardice and compromise as “holding to a form of godliness, but denying its power” (2 Tim. 3:4). For three days following, I reveled in Hebrews 11 — reading of my brothers and sisters in the faith who have gone before me, not clinging to this country nor the approval or pleasures therein, “But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God; for He has prepared a city for them” (Heb. 11:16).
As this fast concludes, whether marriage further upheld or further desecrated, I am convinced we must keep crying out for mercy and a spirit of repentance in His Church and throughout our land. Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy upon us!”
This is the problem with people wanting Jesus but not wanting any doctrine (= biblical teaching). They have no Christian framework for understanding sex or marriage, or life.
I don’t think “cowardice” is the right word. People are cowards in conversations, not voting booths. “Confusion” seems more accurate to me.
I’ve met a lot of Roman Catholics in the Midwest, and most of them don’t even get good teaching on the most important fact (= the Gospel): how you enter into a saving relationship with God. {They hear about sacraments a lot, and very little about the alien righteousness of Christ that admits no works of their own as the ground for salvation (works instead issuing from salvation, Ephesians 2:8-10).} So I think we should give them some grace for not getting the marriage issue correct; God have mercy on them, poor things.
A very powerful, prophetic, and challenging message, Andrew. In the pit of my stomach, I am convicted of cowardice in the face of my compromised faith and my “don’t rock the boat” Christianity. Thank you for dropping the gauntlet. Please pray for me and my fellow Catholics/Christians who are too afraid to step out and challenge the evil that covers our world with the culture of death.
America has woke up and is waking up and it it to the fact that there are gay men and lesbians in every country regardless of faith and ethnicity that has nothing to do with family upbringing and the Freudian myth of strong willed mom passive father creating a gay man.. No longer will we tolerate fear, myth and lies of what it means to be a gay man or lesbian. And we are becoming a better nation for it regardless of what many on the religious right are saying to us. Glad I live in a state that now supports marriage equality. And I know that I am a child of God made in HIs image and He loves me likes me.
Amen, how very true and profound. Thank you, Andy!
I enjoy your blog so much Andy. Thank you. Your gift of prophecy and the power of your personal testimony is powerful merciful truth. Praying and standing with you and yours.
Again Obama is simply doing what Moses did in the past when he found his people were so stubborn about divorce. Obama is focused on saving the whole nation not on saving the souls of every individual. Please give him your support as he too has to answer to God for his own salvation.
As a born again Christian, I do pray for President Obama. I am not one who attacks or judges him. It is the love of Jesus that reminds me of this. But as a broken believer who has chosen the walk of freedom, like Andy I must align myself with truth. Andy’s message is in my opinion for the church at large. We are sleeping and sliding into deception that I have personally experienced leads to death. I choose to love and share Jesus the only way I know how and that is grace, mercy and truth. This requires calling sin what it is. Because God loves me, you and our entire world so much that He wants us to know Him and the power of His resurrection. I am so grateful!
thank you! thank you! thank you! for tolling the bells, letting them sound clear and strong, for not letting Christians (or those who think they are Christians) sleep the sleep that leads to death. thank you, Andy.
Thank you Andy for fighting the good fight. It looked to me that even though it was a big night for ‘gay marriage’ advocates the % of those who voted against it were somewhere in the 46% to 48% range. That’s a lot of opposition in fairly liberal states. We can take heart that a substantial number of folks understand that the union of husband & wife is profoundly and inherently exceptional to the partnership of two identical genders. The union of husband & wife is of such exceptional quality, value, function, purpose, meaning, difference, and design compared to the partnership of same genders. The notion of same-sex marriage as equal to the union of husband & wife is mostly about the deconstruction of propositional and objective truth. It is the enemy’s strategy to introduce extraordinary confusion and conflict in our culture and destroy the foundation of our civilization as a nation under God.
With my deep study of the Bible with BSF http://www.bsfinternational.org for the last 5 years – course is 9 years – I am getting the clear vision why God allows so many mysterious happenings Instead of worrying weeping and not being joyful in accepting His Plan and purpose,I am changing to stop wasting my energy in things that is not in my control and learning to listen to our God