Sadly I once committed adultery in my marriage. In that time I was attacked, rejected and judged by people I called my friends. When it happened, I felt it was wrong how they acted, and in some cases it was wrong. Later though, I realized that I was fully immersed in sinning against my God, my wife and my family and I needed to hear this message of anger and rejection. I’m glad I had a friend that loved me and treated me with love in that time. Kindly and sweetly calling me to repentance instead of hatefully attacking me. Later I used this incident to rebuke some of my friends and to teach them how to better deal with brother involved in sin. This is what the church needs to learn and to practice – how to reject and condemn sin, but how to lovingly and kindly call those in sin to repentance.

The hateful condemnation of practicing homosexuals isn’t the answer and the obsequious, fawning and sinful acceptance of them isn’t either. God is in the balance, and He calls us there also. Let us not throw out the baby with the bathwater. We reject *all* sin, but accept all sinners. We love them and kindly call them to repentance, but we always righteously reject sin as God constantly warns us to do in His word. That is the only thing that matters. Not our beliefs, not our ideas, not our philosophy and certainly not our sophistry, but the truth in the word of God.