{"id":21023,"date":"2013-01-11T03:24:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T06:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21023"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:59:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:59:37","slug":"mohler-on-homosexuality-and-the-moral-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/11\/mohler-on-homosexuality-and-the-moral-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohler on Homosexuality and the Moral Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Albert Mohler, speaking on the “imbroglio” of the planned and then reversed decision to have Pastor Louis Giglio give the benediction at President Obama’s inauguration<\/a>, made some particularly astute observations.<\/p>\n

In short, Pastor Giglio was not welcome once it became clear he had once preached a Christian doctrine:<\/p>\n

A Christian pastor has been effectively disinvited from delivering an inaugural prayer because he believes and teaches Christian truth…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mohler notes that “avoiding” the issue of homosexuality, with a view to public perception, is a “failed strategy:”\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Pastor Giglio has strategically avoided any confrontation with the issue of homosexuality for at least fifteen years…Given the Bible\u2019s insistance that sexual morality is inseparable from our \u201cultimate significance as we make much of Jesus Christ,\u201d this must have been a difficult strategy. It is also a strategy that is very attractive to those who want to avoid being castigated as intolerant or homophobic. As this controversy makes abundantly clear, it is a failed strategy…Anyone who teaches at any time, to any degree, that homosexual behavior is a sin is now to be cast out.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Importantly, Mohler describes the controversial sermon by Pastor Giglio as “filled with grace and the promise of the Gospel.”\u00a0 It was not a ‘tirade against gays,’ as some may have assumed\u00a0or surmised.\u00a0 It was a sermon that noted “all have sinned” — but all also need to repent<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Giglio did not just state that homosexuals are sinners \u2014 he made clear that every single human being is a sinner, in need of the redemption that is found only in Jesus Christ. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to say to the homosexuals, the same thing that I say to you and that you would say to me…It\u2019s not easy to change, but it\u2019s possible to change,\u201d he preached. He pointed his congregation, gay and straight, to \u201cthe healing power of Jesus.\u201d He called his entire congregation to repent and come to Christ by faith.<\/p>\n

That is the quintessential Christian Gospel. That is undiluted biblical truth…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Mohler closes with the firm statement that, despite the social outcry for\u00a0“evolution” in beliefs about homosexuality,\u00a0no man can change what God has said:<\/p>\n

This is precisely what biblical Christians cannot do. While seeking to be gentle in spirit and ruthlessly Gospel-centered in speaking of any sin, we cannot cease to speak of sin as <\/em>sin. To do so is not only to deny the authority of Scripture, not only to reject the moral consensus of the saints, but it undermines the Gospel itself. The Gospel makes no sense, and is robbed of its saving power, if sin is denied as sin.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Believe it or not, there are some who make the moral judgment that it is “wrong” to call homosexuality “wrong.”\u00a0 (Oddly, those same people won’t often defend other<\/em> sins, but that’s a topic for another time.)\u00a0 There are even some connected to the US military who think any statement that declines to affirm\u00a0a homosexual lifestyle\u00a0contradicts\u00a0military policy.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the DoD itself addressed this when DADT was repealed.\u00a0 The recommendations on repeal spelled out that professional respect was required, even among those who disagreed on moral issues.\u00a0 (Notably, that respect is supposed to work in both<\/em> directions.)\u00a0 Respect, however, does not equate to agreement<\/em>.\u00a0 From the DoD’s repeal implementation plan<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Respect does not mean agreement with a person\u2019s point of view. Respect does mean honoring a person\u2019s right to hold their point of view even if it differs from yours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

US troops — whether they are Christian or not — are permitted to hold and express beliefs in opposition to the homosexual lifestyle.\u00a0 Servicemembers are also permitted to hold and express beliefs in opposition to moral or religious objections to the homosexual lifestyle.<\/p>\n

The only requirement is they demonstrate respect even as they disagree — which is the same requirement levied on every <\/em>issue.<\/p>\n

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