Many Want to be Tolerant and Silent about Evil (TMF:429)

Thursday, June 16, 2016
Peace to Live By: Many Want to be Tolerant and Silent about Evil (TMF:429) - Daniel Litton
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       Many, however, want to be tolerant of evil and not speak out against it. This concept has even run rampant in many churches of our day. Many churches don’t want to speak out against certain things like adultery, homosexuality, whatever—because they feel that it’s not peaceful (and they are afraid of losing their tax exemption from the government). But one cannot love others without telling them the truth. Let’s take an example of what this might look like. Surely, the day will come when we are penalized for saying homosexuality is wrong or we may perhaps even be locked up in jail for saying it. But that is a consequence for speaking the truth that we will will have to face when the day comes. Practicing homosexuality is something a person can change, and is not like the color of a person’s skin. People often link these two areas together in talking about civil rights. God creates people with the color of their skin in his own image, but God doesn’t create people to practice sexual immorality—to be sexually perverted. Now, I understand that many people don’t feel homosexuality is wrong—I get that. But God says that it is, and God loves us as people and wants what is best for us.