Just fill in the blank: alcoholism, drugs, homosexuality, promiscuity. If you have any of these in your life, you must not be a Christian. It starts getting even nastier sometimes – if you drink at all, have sex outside of marriage, or smoke, then you are, at BEST, a really bad Christian. Homosexuality gets filed in there too.

Groups can, unfortunately, go the other way too by saying those things are no problem and there is no reason to change any of them. “As long as you’re looking for God, it doesn’t matter about alcoholism, drugs, promiscuity, homosexuality, smoking, etc.”

Neither is Biblically sound, and both do great damage to the Body. It’s possible, and properly Christian, to hold that sin is real and wrong, and it should not be shrugged off as unimportant in life, while at the same time sharing, witnessing, and welcoming people to Christ.

But that takes work: holding to the Bible’s standards, extending grace and mercy, not demanding perfection, encouraging improvement, working with very complicated situation, and realizing that one’s own moral standard is not the rule with which to measure others.

I followed the link from Eric’s site to yours. Good questions…woud love to dialogue with you on them.

Check out Erics post on Becky O So Cal weekend to find out more about me:)

I do have myspace too…

Becky O