Within the churches are those who defend the historic
Christian teaching on sexuality. It is
assumed that there will always be some discernible dissonance between the
Church and the world and that part of the mission of the Holy Spirit through
the Church is, as Jesus says in John 16, to “tell the world that it is wrong
about sin and righteousness and judgment.”
On the other side are those who reject the historic Christian teaching and who seem to believe that the world, as represented by its most self-consciously progressive institutions and thinkers, is ahead of the Church in ushering in the Kingdom of God. Indeed, that the world is right in telling the Church that it is wrong about sin and righteousness and judgement. They say that God is doing a new thing. But they seem unable to imagine that God might say ‘no’ to any new thing done in the world in the name of progress. There seems to be no room on the part of the revisionists for any truly prophetic word to be spoken to the world’s claims about love and justice.
-Ken Myers
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