Lovingly? What a joke. I think this church needs to learn what love means.
There are plenty of churches who accept gay people so I hope he moved on. No need to lose sleep over a church full of homophobes.
Hi God changes not and the values and morality in scriptures are not equal to cultural things which can change over time and from place to place. Jeremiah 23 Speaks of the LORD condemning false prophets and the measure of the false prophet was not turning people from their sins and saying they will have peace when they follow the dictates of their own heart. This is a latter days prophecy as it specifically says you will understand this then. Jesus was brought the woman caught in adultery and he was asked weather she should be stoned to death as was required by the law. Jesus said he who is without sin many cast the 1st stone and she was then left alone with Him. Jesus said I do not condemn you but go and sin no more. The choice was hers to repent or not. here is the quote form Jer 23
“For both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the LORD.
12 “Therefore their way shall be to them
Like slippery
ways;
In the darkness they shall be driven on
And fall in them;
For I will bring disaster on them,
The year of their punishment,” says the LORD.
13 “And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria:
They prophesied by Baal
And caused My people Israel to err.
14 Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They also strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one turns back from his wickedness.
All of them are like Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.
15 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
16 Thus says the LORD of hosts:
“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you.
They make you worthless;
They speak a vision of their own heart,
Not from the mouth of the LORD.
17 They continually say to those who despise Me,
‘The LORD has said, “You shall have peace” ’;
And
to everyone who walks according to the dictates of his own heart, they say,
‘No evil shall come upon you.’ ”
18 For who has stood in the counsel of the LORD,
And has perceived and heard His word?
Who has marked His word and heard
it?
19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD has gone forth in fury—
A violent whirlwind!
It will fall violently on the head of the wicked.
20 The anger of the LORD will not turn back
Until He has executed and performed the thoughts of His heart.
In the latter days you will understand it perfectly.
21 “I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran.
I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.
22 But if they had stood in My counsel,
And had caused My people to hear My words,
Then they would have turned them from their evil way
And from the evil of their doings.
This church loved that man by letting him know he is on the wrong side of the line if he repents he would be welcome back.
