91% of unchurched young people think that Christianity is anti-gay. Young adults are overwhelmingly in favour of marriage equality. According to Becky Garrison - Ancient Future Disciples. No wonder we are unable to reach them.
Now these figures are from the US, but it is probably not dissimilar in the UK - or at least the implications. For all of the reasons for and against homosexuality, if we - the church - insist on making it an issue, then we may win the argument, but we will lose a generation.
The truth is that I would rather win people than be right. I would rather people engaged with God and met him, and let him be the judge. He does it better than me.
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Too true Cat. From an Anabaptist viewpoint, I use Jesus as the yardstick both for ethics and for biblical interpretation, so here is everything he said about homosexuality:
ReplyDeleteI think this is very true for a lot of my friends!
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