Wonderful! and hurrah for Mr. Merton, but the leadership of the CRC fails to see Christ in LGBT people and so do many people in the pew, particularly in pews south of the Canada U.S. border. The last Synod drove the nail in the coffin. I appreciate Mr. Brouwer for posting this. I hasten to add, sexual orientation is not the only kind of person in whom Christians fail to see the Christ.
Christ's sumary of all laws and prophecies into the one word of LOVE is a stumbling block for many Christians. As long as churches are obsessed with their "Absolute Truth' and unattainable purity, they will continue to remove the splinters from the neighbour's eyes but because they have a beam in their own eyes they cannot see Christ or see LOVE! May the Holy Spirit do her work and change hearts and lives and teach them to LOVE!
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Wonderful! and hurrah for Mr. Merton, but the leadership of the CRC fails to see Christ in LGBT people and so do many people in the pew, particularly in pews south of the Canada U.S. border. The last Synod drove the nail in the coffin. I appreciate Mr. Brouwer for posting this. I hasten to add, sexual orientation is not the only kind of person in whom Christians fail to see the Christ.
Christ's sumary of all laws and prophecies into the one word of LOVE is a stumbling block for many Christians. As long as churches are obsessed with their "Absolute Truth' and unattainable purity, they will continue to remove the splinters from the neighbour's eyes but because they have a beam in their own eyes they cannot see Christ or see LOVE! May the Holy Spirit do her work and change hearts and lives and teach them to LOVE!