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Psalm 119:89 For ever, O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.

We are certainly living in a different era. Yesterday two different articles showed the state of America. The Daily Hampshire Gazette tells the story of an Episcopalian minister in Massachusetts who will not marry heterosexual couples, because the Anglican Church has prohibited marrying homosexual couples. According to the article, Margaret Bullitt-Jonas, who is an associate minister of the church had this to say:

I am convinced that when gays and lesbians are baptized, they become full members of the body of Christ. They are not partial members or conditional members or second-class members.

He will not marry straight couples as a way of “fasting” to show support for those gays and lesbians who have had to live their entire lives without opportunity to marry. They have forsaken Scriptural truth in order to pursue social activism. There is not a shred of Bible support for a gay lifestyle–let alone marriage. Yet times have change…or so they say.

As if that is not bad enough, a nondenominational evangelical church in Missouri is getting attention for having an “outreach” in a microbrewery. They are having a variety of discussions (about rock and roll, racism, et. al) over a variety of beers to encourage the younger generation to come to church.The Columbia Tribune reports that this “emergent” church is using a variety of methods for reaching those that would not normally come to church. Christians would agree about reaching out to those who are not saved. I am an evangelist–it is one of my greatest drives, yet I cannot use immoral methods to do so.

We must cling to the verse that we opened with. It teaches simply that God’s Word is eternal. We as Christians do not have the right to decide our own morality. The Scriptures establish absolutes, and we are bound to them. Our churches are bound to the New Testament. We ought live and worship that way. Our faith is founded in the Word.