Big Love

[livinganewlife]

I have questions to pose:

Why polygamy is viewed as so terrible and we in churches don’t or won’t preach against single parenting (no offense to anyone on the BB)?

I read the story article that Nikkol posted and this is a man who is taking care of his family and they are all adults and they have decided to live with each other….

Again, I ask would some of us agree with a polygamy family who comes to your church, and want to become active members of your church? (Example: join the choir, the usher board or the greeters committee)……

If you would oppose a polygamist family joining your church; would you also take the same stand on the single mother who comes to church with her three children (by three different men) and still have b**ty calls late at night with her baby daddy…….

Or would you also take the same stand against that Homosexual choir director…..

Is the problem we have with Polygamy is the fact that it is in our face…….

All sin is sin….or are there varying degrees of sins?

[krazeeboi]

I think all of the examples you listed are different in nature.

I'm going to take the stance here that being in a polygamous marriage is sin for the sake of argument.

There's a difference between committing an act of sin and being in a state of sin. Speaking for the position of pastor, I wouldn't let a person in a polygamous marriage hold any position in a church, just as I wouldn't allow a person shacking up to do the same.

A single woman with three kids and three different fathers is different, assuming she's not living with a man she's not married to. Those are events that happened in the past, and as long as she still isn't popping them out like it ain't nothing, we should be OK. If she's creeping and not married, it will eventually come to the light. But that's not something that's visible, and you can't deny someone a position in the church on the basis of a baseless accusation. If there is reasonable cause to think that she might be doing something she has no business doing, then it can be brought up.

And sit these flamboyant homosexuals down. That simply sends the wrong message to put someone like that with visible issues in a position of prominence. If he isn't flamboyant, but does his creeping on the low, then the same applies to him as it does the creeping single mother that I talked about above.

We must realize that yes, sin is sin, but that there are different categorizations and shades of it (and no, that's not a man-made thing, that's Bible) and as such, should be dealt with in different ways. When somebody is visibly in sin or is having visible struggles with something sinful, common sense should tell you from the jump to not put that person in a position of authority, influence, or prominence. Now that type of person is just as accountable to the Lord (and the church) and responsible for his/her sin as the person with private issues, but we're not omniscient. It may take a little longer for the person who's doing undercover dirt to be exposed, or it may never happen, but the Lord sees and knows all.

[Beulah5]

The church is full of teaching, reaching on this, that and those. Christian life coaches, mentors, counsellors the list is endless and u know why?

Because teaching can never replace the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. Now I have been in meetings where the presence of God has truly hit and no man was left standing everyone was crying out to God in repentance without anyone preaching.

Let us stop putting a series out for everything and get people to going back to having real relationship with God and sin and all these issues that seem to co exist in the church will all be done with because there is nothing like a man meeting his maker face to face like Isaiah who screamed woe is me He will forever be changed.

The Holy Spirit is the one who brings in the fear of the Lord which is His treasure.