What in the World are We Here For?
That’s the question I keep coming back to in the recent dust-up over providing services for gay customers. What are we, the church, here for? From the various blogs I’ve seen at least the following answers to my question can be deduced: 1. To stand for our faith in every area of life 2. To pass judgment on gay people 3. To impose our view of sexuality on others in whatever ways we can The common thread here is exclusion. In a faith mandated to take the non-exclusive and unconditional love of God to the word, the Christians involved in this brouhaha seem more focused on drawing lines in the sand and excluding those who don’t have the right qualifications. While it is surely right to stand for our faith in every area of life, whatever faith we are representing by exclusive actions is certainly questionable. To pass judgment on someone, or to declare that they stand under the judgment...