I want to look at some examples of people who are working this through at
The Meeting House. We have conservatives and liberals. We have traditionalists and
progressives. We have gay Christians, like this group I got a chance to hang out
with recently at one of our sites, who are all LGBT. So they're a beautiful,
beautiful group within, and they represent many. We have gay singles, we
have gay couples, and they are there on both sides of the traditional and
progressive. And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned
them with an overthrow, making them an ensemble unto those that after should
live ungodly, and delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of
the wicked, for that righteous man dwelling among them in seeing and
hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds.
Let me give you another example. Here's Jan and Bill Dobson who attend our
Oakville site, who would have been firmly in the traditionalist camp, including the
attitudes of the traditionalist camp. You can't be gay and follow Jesus. And they
were comfortable with those attitudes until their son came out to them as gay.
And now here at The Meeting House they've been processing. What does that mean?
They haven't changed their theology, but they have had a heart change towards
people who are same-sex attracted, because they knew someone, and they loved
someone. They had to hang out with him as their son. And now they lead a group for
other parents of gay kids, who are processing their own journey here at the
Oakville site. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affection, for even
their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature, and
likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman burned in their
lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet. Here's
another example. This is Brian Pengele sitting right here this morning. Brian's
a dear friend of mine. He's gay and he's married to a woman. What's with that?
It's a choice that he's made in his love relationship both with Jesus and with
his wife. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished.