Reformed Churchmen

We are Confessional Calvinists and a Prayer Book Church-people. In 2012, we remembered the 350th anniversary of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer; also, we remembered the 450th anniversary of John Jewel's sober, scholarly, and Reformed "An Apology of the Church of England." In 2013, we remembered the publication of the "Heidelberg Catechism" and the influence of Reformed theologians in England, including Heinrich Bullinger's Decades. For 2014: Tyndale's NT translation. For 2015, John Roger, Rowland Taylor and Bishop John Hooper's martyrdom, burned at the stakes. Books of the month. December 2014: Alan Jacob's "Book of Common Prayer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Book-Common-Prayer-Biography-Religious/dp/0691154813/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417814005&sr=8-1&keywords=jacobs+book+of+common+prayer. January 2015: A.F. Pollard's "Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation: 1489-1556" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-English-Reformation-1489-1556/dp/1592448658/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420055574&sr=8-1&keywords=A.F.+Pollard+Cranmer. February 2015: Jaspar Ridley's "Thomas Cranmer" at: http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Cranmer-Jasper-Ridley/dp/0198212879/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422892154&sr=8-1&keywords=jasper+ridley+cranmer&pebp=1422892151110&peasin=198212879

Friday, April 5, 2013

WORLD | Gay marriage: You will be made to care | Marvin Olasky | April 1, 2013

WORLD | Gay marriage: You will be made to care | Marvin Olasky | April 1, 2013


Gay marriage: You will be made to care

Marriage

A gay marriage supporter outside the Supreme Court last week.
AFP/Getty Images/Photo by Jewel Samad
A gay marriage supporter outside the Supreme Court last week.
Erick Erickson, editor of the influential Redstate.com, argued last Thursday that many young evangelicals know same-sex marriage (SSM) is wrong but “they want the world to like them and to think them a part of the world. They view Christians who are seen as too hostile to others as inferior in spreading the gospel or too judgmental.”
 
I’d say those young evangelicals are partly right. The spread of the gospel is hurt when people define Christianity in terms of what it’s against. But Erickson is also right to note, “We should not delude ourselves. At some point the world will make us choose. And if we choose Christ the world will accuse us of hating, condemning, and judging.”
 
After all, loving our neighbors as ourselves means praying we and they will sin less, for we are all sinners. Erickson rightly points out, “God didn’t do it. Our fallen nature did. The struggle with sin in the process of sanctification leads us closer to God. Those who revel in sin do not draw close.”
 
One young evangelical, M.J. Daniels, replied to Erickson by writing, “Is Homosexuality a sin? I. Do. Not. Care. … The debate over SSM is a divisive political issue that is tearing this country apart culturally and politically, while distracting from other, FAR more serious crises that we are refusing to face because we cannot resolve the differences between left and right on this one issue.”

For full article, see: http://www.worldmag.com/2013/04/gay_marriage_you_will_be_made_to_care#.UVzXuZiymwk.twitter

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