November 13, 2017 Show with Tim Bayly on “The Grace of Shame: 7 Ways the Church has Failed to Love Homosexuals”
November 13, 2017:
Tim Bayly, author & Senior Pastor of Clearnote Church, Bloomington, Indiana, who will address:
“The GRACE of SHAME: 7 Ways the Church has FAILED to LOVE HOMOSEXUALS”
Transcript
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Well, today we are going to be addressing a very controversial issue in the church today, and
that is the issue of homosexuality.
And today we have a returning guest to discuss this issue, Tim Bailey, who is
an author and the senior pastor of Clearnote Church in Bloomington, Indiana.
We're going to be addressing his new book titled The Grace of Shame, Seven Ways the Church
Has Failed to Love Homosexuals, which he co -authored with two
other authors.
And it is our honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio,.
Tim Bailey.
Here again, and I'm looking forward...
I am as well.
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Well, before we go into the subject, Tim, since it's been a while since you've been on Iron Trip
and Zion Radio, I'd love for you to tell our listeners about Clear Note Church in Bloomington,
Indiana.
Well, thanks,.
Chris.
We have a church here that is very much young, which I think is pretty much
true.
And
get into my sixth group and an elders group that
are about music, that's probably the thing that best known for
is that we have a whole bunch of good musicians because Indiana University has, I think,
the largest music school in the country.
And so we have very good musicians, and we're in the middle of a project called My
Soul Among Lions, writing
music and versification and recording them 10 by 10.
And so that's been a very sweet work.
It takes a lot of time and energy, and sometimes the children and wives suffer because of the amount of time they're
gone.
They've gone on a couple of returned
from Pennsylvania.
And it's
just kids under the age of five.
So there's always new...
Praise
God.
And I understand that
it is an unusual
church in.
That it has a makeup that includes both Presbyterians and Reformed
Baptists in leadership.
When the church stopped PCA or not, because I
was PCA, the men who were Reformed Baptists, and it just didn't
make any sense
to
speech time men come to church.
It's kind of interesting because they have not had any division
or...
And
I think the
reason it
doesn't...
Well, I have to highly commend to our listeners, My Soul Among Lions.
They are absolutely remarkable.
I consider them truly one of my very
favorite Christian recording artists.
I mean, obviously, they're thoroughly biblical because they sing the Psalms.
And the way that they sing the Psalms is, I think, breathtaking and unique,
and has some bluegrass influence.
Although Jody Killingsworth said that a diehard bluegrass fan might question
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But I hear that in there, but it's a very unique
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CD out now.
I believe it's only two so far, correct?
Oh, okay.
I listened to this
one yesterday.
For them, I can't tell you the difference it makes to have...
You know, I
have been...
Amen.
Well, we are
discussing, as I already announced,.
A book that you have co -authored with two other brothers.
Joseph Bailey and Juergen von Hagen.
Is Joseph your son?
And tell us something about your son and also about Juergen von Hagen.
I have not heard of Juergen before being introduced to your book, but if you could.
Tell us about both of your co -authors.
Joseph is named for his grandpa and great -grandpa and great -grandpa and great -grandpa.
And if you go over to the Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, you'll find...
Wow, because I do intend to go to Gettysburg for the
first time.
I've been living.
In Pennsylvania since 2012, and I haven't been there yet, but I intend to go there.
...address.
They
have a...
That's not actually a world cemetery.
A number of Presbyterian ministers in the Lancaster County area going back into
the 1700s,
but rather intermarried with their
son.
He is in Cincinnati at Christ Church,
and he planted a church here in Indianapolis before going and working on his second one
over in Cincinnati.
And then Juergen von Hagen is
an eponymous in Germany
and many, many publications.
He has done things and is currently doing things.
He pastors a
church...
Oh, praise
God.
Well, this,
as I have
repeated,
is a very.
Controversial issue because you have even those who are
professedly conservative Bible -believing evangelicals who
disagree on the approach to this sin known as homosexuality.
In fact, there are even some of our brothers who think that we are compromising by even using the
term homosexual.
They think that it would be preferable to use the term sodomy or some other term.
But what do you think is the main failure
in the church today that drove you to write this book along with your son and Juergen von
Hagen?
And then we'll go through as many of the seven ways the church has failed to love homosexuals.
We'll go through as many as time will allow.
But what was like the catalyst, the initial wake -up call for you that said, wait a minute, there's something going on
here that I need to address because it seems that there is a shift
taking place even amongst those who believe in the inerrancy of Scripture and who believe that homosexuality
is a sin, in fact a damnable sin, but there seems to be a shift going on.
So tell us why this book was needed to fill a void in the
literature of evangelicalism.
Well thanks, Chris.
On a number of concerns,
nationally known leaders were compromising on
the
issue.
And all of us, I think, and pastors tend to
change our language in order to show ourselves reasonable, especially if we preach.
And so I noticed a number of years ago that if I would use the word sodomy, people would have a fit.
An old seminary professor of mine, when I used the word sodomy on the website, on the blog, he wrote me and
explained that he didn't think I understood how.
And of course I don't,
depending
on the
situactuality.
Seeing
a
number
of these people repent and knowing them intimately,
a lot of leaders today don't know how to minister to
people who are tempted by homosexuality.
I've gotten emails from men, specifically, thanking me for using the word sodomy
occasionally on the blog.
And I think
when you
have people feeling
the
pressure of
Obergefell,
another
thing that's a reason not to
hire somebody, another, as
long as you get publicly and
to talk about
homosexuality,
you don't want to say
that
it's
true of
homosexuality,
it's true.
And that he
excoriated
them for
saying they repented
against
Repair
the Time, where at the very beginning,
Juergen
and I
were
upspending
that
book
together.
And I am assuming, having some familiarity with you, that you would
be very opposed to the self -righteous, hateful agenda
of the quote -quote God hates fags cult, Westboro Baptist Church, who seem
to have nothing but exuberant joy at the notion of homosexuals
going to hell.
They don't seem to have any message of hope by proclaiming a
gospel to them, by calling upon them to repent, they just want to declare that
they are doomed and they seem very happy about the fact that unrepentant homosexuals will be doomed.
There seems to be no compassion, love, or agenda, or mission
to rescue these people.
And I'm assuming that you.
Would be totally opposed to that kind of a thing.
Such were some of you.
Every single one of
our churches has a number of men who are...
Now, I know that saying, you don't know what you're talking about.
We don't have that in our church.
And I say, invite me and then see what is
confirmed.
And so I've been involved with so many churches and so many leaders that
the idea that anybody who speaks of the shame of
homosexuality is ludicrous, that's what the mainstream media wants everybody to believe, that if anybody's
opposed to the sin of sodomy, that they're
haters, this, that, and the other thing.
And we don't have to prove that to each other in the church.
And I would mention something.
In our church, we actually
greet one another with a holy kiss that we're commanded to
do.
And so in our church, the men do greet each other with a holy
kiss
because
homosexuality is
being written by...
Well,
praise
God for
that.
Well, let's go.
To the first way out of seven that you believe that the church has failed to love
homosexuals.
...for John
the
Baptist.
Malachoi means
men
who lie
with males.
And so
Malachoi
is a
separate sin from our Senequoia.
Well, what the SVD did into one thing, and it said
men who, or men who have homosexual
intercourse.
And so then in a footnote, they say up
in the text, it's in a homosexual
sense,
that
Malachoi
is
a
homosexual.
And
that's
on
alcohol
with,
isn't
it
true?
Almost
always, immediately, they'll say
you can't
have sex
before.
And
every one of these get men saying,
then you move over
to women
and you...
way
in
which a
healthy
person...
thinking about a hack,
stupid... out
of
our preaching,
out
of
our Bibles, and not
wanting to think about it.
Then
they say,
well,
people nitpick, because it has
to be a matter of the conscience.
They want to
write it
out.
You saying if
anybody...
we have to be...
And that's a
perfect
place for.
Us to go to our first break right now.
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go, Tim Bailey, author and senior pastor of Clear Note Church in Bloomington, Indiana.
Today we are discussing his latest book, The Grace of Shame, Seven Ways the Church Has Failed to
Love Homosexuals.
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Tim, it seems so far that the title of the book,
Seven Ways, or should I say the the subtitle of the book, Seven Ways the Church Has Failed to Love Homosexuals,
I'm getting the impression that one of the ways that the church has failed to love homosexuals is by
being, no pun intended, too soft on the sin, which is in some
way or some ways to the modern person,
the liberal person, they would equate being softer
on the sin with being more loving towards those involved in it, whereas you are,
I can gather, are saying that we've been too soft on the sin, which is actually not loving,
if we really believe that that sin, unrepented of, will send a man or woman to hell, that we
have to be tougher on this issue.
Am I.
Correct in assessing that?
Yeah, I think that we're going soft on the parts that we
share with people who are involved in the gay lifestyle, and so if you think of
being homosexual, you can be homosexual in sexual relations.
A lot of homosexuality is just simply avoiding responsibility, avoiding doing
the hard thing, avoiding identifying as a man, being vain about your
appearance, and I think that's the reason that it's pulled out of the SDs, that you have
about them, we start talking about ourselves, and we realize
that in major ways, we, by not being
bold and not confessing the Lord, that we are not manifesting ourselves as the men that
God made us, and so I don't think it's just that we shouldn't be soft on
homosexual intercourse.
Of course we shouldn't be soft on that, it's bondage, but we also should not be soft
on the sin that the Apostle Paul says will keep us from heaven, and that's the sin of effeminacy
all through history, that's the way it's been translated, and
I've noted in my lifetime that the word effeminacy isn't
anymore,
it's the
best, it's fine,
the word
responsibilities
and
authorities
God has
given
us.
And you said something before the break that was interesting to me because it actually, in some ways,
was a stereotype breaker.
It occurred to me while you were speaking that it seems that you are including in this group of
soft men, men that the world might look upon as
virile and macho, and what I'm speaking of is men who cannot control their
sexual appetites, men who cannot wait until marriage to have sexual
intercourse, men that cannot commit to one woman, who think that promiscuity
is actually a sign of virility, masculinity, and machismo,
and you're actually including that group within a soft male category.
They have typical manly traits, you know.
In fact, the Nazi party, as you may recall, one of the
very first members was Ernst Röhm, who was a notorious
homosexual and pederast.
He wasn't even closeted about it, and he was a poster boy for machismo.
He was a very rough and violent man.
He had the battle scar, the dueling scar on his face.
He was known for wanting to beat people up, and so were his homosexual cohorts amongst the brown
shirts, and yet these rough, tough men were actually homosexuals.
Yeah, you look, those guys
would have had their pictures on the front of Vanity Fair.
Well, before we go on to reason number two, we do have a listener in Slovenia
named Joe, and by the way, Tim, if you could be conscious of the fact to keep your mouth near the
mouthpiece of the phone or however you're using it, because sometimes you fade out, so I'm not sure what's.
Going on on your end, but...
I'm sorry about that.
That's okay.
We have Joe in Slovenia, and he says, Dear Brother Chris, thank you so much for having the courage and love to
address the tough topics that we need to face biblically.
Please ask Brother Tim to discuss how the sin of homosexuality, sodomy, and how the
church has failed to love homosexuals is different from other sins in the
church, like gluttony, obesity, gossip, etc., that are accepted,
excused, and ignored.
In what ways, if any, is the sin of sodomy unique or different from other sins that
our licentious and antinomian culture embraces, even in the church?
Thanks again for Christian radio that is edifying and challenging in our walk with Christ.
That was Joe in Slovenia.
What was his list?
He said gluttony.
What were the other sins?
Let's see.
The sin of gluttony, obesity, gossip, etc.
That's as far as he went with that.
Well, as far as gossip is concerned, I think one of the
things you have to realize is that if you go directly to homosexual intercourse, there could be
no context in which desiring it or committing it can ever be good, and that's one of the things that's different
about gluttony and obesity and gossip, that each of those things involves
the use of your mouth that is hard to pin down when it goes into
sin.
We have to eat, we have to talk, we have to pray, we have to share prayer requests, and
so we have a tendency when it comes to sins that
are judgment calls, that require judgment, okay, to
sort of back off on them because we don't want to say where the sin
begins and where, you know, we eat, we have to eat, we have to continue to eat, fat people have to
eat, and so where does it move into gluttony?
Where does it move into their god is their belly?
With homosexuality, that's just not true.
This is wrong.
You can't have good homosexuality.
Honestly, I
don't think the Church goes easy on homosexuality
or gluttony or obesity.
I think the Church goes easy on every sin.
I think in our churches today, most of us, if we don't have any sin
and that what sins we have are private and we confess them privately, we don't ask for help, I was
just reading about Calvin and Pharoah, that they would announce to their congregations before
communion that they were happy to meet with people who had issues of conscience and needed help in working
through their sins in any of our churches today.
I think we're clean machines, and so when people say, well, you know, you're harping on homosexuality, but you don't say
anything against gluttony, I think that's bogus.
I think we don't say anything against any sin.
Some churches, there's some group of men that
talk when men,
my denomination for many years,
I'd say them to be an elder as you are.
Well, you know, the ring of truth,.
To take a different angle on it from what Joan Slovenia is saying, I think a very common
thing that has been said, that I've heard said frequently, is
sin is sin is sin.
Who are you to judge?
Just because somebody is a homosexual doesn't mean that they are going to be any
less likely to enter into heaven than somebody who has
a heterosexual lust problem.
But isn't there an enormous difference between a man who is a heterosexual
who battles a lust problem and does everything he can from
protecting himself, from actually committing the act physically.
I'm not saying that he is free from sin, but I am saying that there's a difference between somebody who makes
sure that his spouse has the same email address, and he goes through all of these ways to prevent
himself from looking at pornography and other things.
There's a difference between that and somebody who has given in and yielded to and surrendered to
homosexual proclivities by either fulfilling those desires in
physical acts, or by identifying him or herself by that sexual proclivity.
Yeah, I think that that's absolutely.
Right.
I think that, again, you don't have to have sex, you have to eat.
And so we have to keep these distinctions in mind.
Everybody has to eat, everybody doesn't have to have sex, so you can be celibate and not have
sexual relations with a wife or a husband.
But you can also be married, and you can move, even with your wife, into
a degree of lust and concupiscence.
It's a word that actually in the reform world there's been discussion of before, but we don't talk about it today,
because actually we don't talk about any sex.
Ask people and work against incest, we don't work against
child abuse, we don't work against fornication.
You know how many churches regularly ask the children of the elders and
pastor, and look out to see if they're being pure with their girlfriend or boyfriend, and ask them prior
to marriage whether they're being pure.
Now, coming back to the issue of how we deal with sin, I think
that in the reform world today, we've gotten to the point where we
say we do, it comes to pastors getting into the
trenches.
Now, I
realize people would think that pastors are dealing with fornication
and adultery and incest and stuff, but I think in most churches, pastors are scared out of
their wits, and so I think pastors
generally are no more involved in condemning homosexuality.
In fact, we'll
pick up right
where
you
left off
there when
we
return from our.
Break.
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Tim Bailey, who is the senior pastor at Clearnote Church in Bloomington, Indiana.
We are addressing his latest book, The Grace of Shame, Seven Ways the Church Has Failed to Love
Homosexuals.
And this is a book that is co -authored with his son
and another author.
And if you would like to join us on the air, our email address is chrisarnson at gmail .com.
And Tim, before the break, you were talking about how the outward
physical manifestations of sin, like active physical
homosexual behavior and other sins, that's just the outside of the cup.
And what you were saying right before we went to the break is that the inside of the cup needs to be dealt with as well.
Yeah, I was just reading some history about
Calvin's conflict with Pharaoh, that wonderful man that made him stop there in
Geneva and serve the church.
And when Pharaoh was 69, he decided he would marry a woman who, depending on which historian you read,
was 40 or 50 years younger than he was.
And so the question is, why did Calvin refuse to attend the wedding and even to
officiate at the ceremony?
And why did the harshest letter he ever wrote, Pharaoh, was condemning him for this marriage?
And the reason is that Calvin believed
that a man who is 69 can never be faithed in the way he
needs to be, because his sexual desires are just not what they used to be, and that if
a man at 69, well, if that man, there was
another guy who had been a monk who
married, and he felt
that age,
immodest, not just immodest, I don't know
that he would say
immoral, but he was not
saying he
shouldn't have sex
at all, but we're
not
intimate in marriage.
He just
got
an email
from a
man
in
Vault,
we
don't
have to begin to.
And by the way, I forgot to tell our friend in Slovenia, Joe, that you have won a
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Let's go to number two, the second reason.
Why or how the church has failed to love homosexuals.
A few years ago, Aiken and the chaplain
at Wheaton College hired a woman who identified as a lesbian to work as one of
the chaplains of sexual minorities on their campus.
She'd been there, she was a former Wheaton student that played on the women's basketball team.
After she'd been there a short time, she came out and
said the
people
who
call it sexual
intercourse,
who
identify as, and again,
the way
people
were
gay.
I just,
in
livingout
.org, you
don't
have any livingout .org
that's sex with their, and people
will
say, well,
wait
a second, the
response
is now, that's together
in script, people aren't open,
should not be identifying themselves.
That's not a
way,
not
accused of
being haters and
everything.
And something that you said is interesting because, well, everything you said is interesting, but
one specific thing that I want to address is that
those who are identifying themselves as homosexual activists, whether they themselves be
homosexuals or heterosexuals, those that are activists in favor of the cause of the
legitimacy of homosexuality are, in public anyway,
fairly unanimous in their condemnation against pedophilia.
And yet, many, if not most of those same voices, are saying that a
child should be able to determine what gender they are,
and that would include parents allowing that children to have either surgery or
hormonal treatment or whatever, to, in attempts to, in vain of course,
change the gender of that child, which I think is amongst the most grotesque and
disgusting forms of child abuse you can imagine.
But it's interesting how they think a child, even a young child, has the maturity to
make a decision like that, but not who they are going to have sexual relations with.
I think that pedophilia is riding on the heels of that.
I mean, doesn't that just make logic perfect sense?
Yes, it's the great hypocrisy where, for instance, in Cincinnati, where they've made reparative therapy
illegal, they also will help to fund parents having sex
the body of a child who is questioning.
Even though studies show that children that question, even into adolescence, what their sexual
identity is, they call it a gender identity.
Well, in the majority of cases, life is
adults.
And so, you know, there's a tremendous number of people who have had some level of mutilation
of their body and hormone therapy who are now reverting back to the sex that God made them,
because they're not happy even with the sex.
And this is error number
Al Mohler, Heath
Lambert, men like
that,
who are
announcing
public
do an end
run in conversion or gender identity therapy,
who are saying, no, we don't believe it.
We're against that.
And they announced it precisely at the time when, across our country,
laws were being passed against that form of conduct.
They're not to
do that.
What is the
actual reasoning that is being.
Used to be opposed?
I mean, I can understand that some conservative Bible believing Christians who believe in
inerrancy and who believe that homosexuality is damnable.
I can understand some of them not being into pop psychology as a as a
methodology to, quote, unquote, cure people without even the
regenerating power of the Holy Spirit.
But I don't know what are the specific reasons that are being used by conservatives?
Sure.
Nobody's saying a particular form of therapy.
If you look at the laws that are passed across the country, it simply makes it
who identifies as gay love and live.
That's what's being outlawed.
And right as it's being outlawed across the country, you have the ACBC and
Al announcing that they oppose reparative therapy, even though in the past,
Al Moore has promoted it and has defended it.
Some of these guys, if you get them in a
private
very
young
age,
they're
holding
the line.
It's
sexual
intercourse
about the
nature of
sexual identity and
being
against.
Nobody wants to think that anybody in the country who's caving to the
forces.
But you don't have to cave completely.
All you have to do is send out signals that you're reasonable about it.
And then in the conversation,
you're against homosexual
marriage and
you're
against
homosexual.
Well, I'm
going
to read a question for
you
before
we go to the.
Break.
I'll read it to you and then you can answer it when we return.
We have Ronald in Eastern Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, who says, I have heard
Chris Arnden, the host of this program, say that he is personally opposed to using the term gay or
especially gay community when referring to homosexuals, because it seems to be
acquiescing to the demands of the left culture.
Do you agree with Chris on this, or do you have a disagreement with the usage of these terms that have become
acceptable labels in our culture today?
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This is Chris Aronson, and this is the last half hour of our discussion today with Tim Bailey,
author and senior pastor at Clear Note Church in Bloomington, Indiana.
We are addressing the theme of his latest book, The Grace of Shame, Seven Ways the
Church Has Failed to Love Homosexuals.
If you'd like to get in line and ask a question before we run out of time, our email address is chrisarnson at
gmail .com, C -H -R -I -S -A -R -N -Z -E -N at gmail .com.
Please give us your first name, city and state, and country of residence if you live outside the USA, and only remain anonymous if it is
about a personal and private matter over which you are asking.
And before the break, Pastor Tim, we had Ronald in Eastman -Suffolk County,
Long Island, saying basically, aren't we acquiescing to the anti -biblical culture
by using the term gay or gay community when referring to those involved in homosexual activity?
Well, you know, to say we shouldn't use the word gay and gay community, I
guess the
introduction of this book is words matter.
And in the introduction, I explain the history of the doctrine of
inerrancy or inspiration of scripture.
And I think we do have to be extremely precise and careful in how we speak
of sin, and of course, of the sin of sodomy, or men lying with men, and
soft manishness or effeminacy.
Living in a university community, I'll have people tell me that, you know, I'm not nuanced enough for the academics, and
I appear ignorant to them, and I should change the way I preach.
And I try to explain to them that if I use the word sodomy, it's not because I'm
unaware of how people will respond, but it's because I want to maintain the
shame of the sin through the way that I speak of it.
Now, does that mean that if I'm publicly testifying at a meeting, and the gay community wants to
open a halfway house or something, I won't use the word gay?
No, I just used it in saying the gay community.
Generally, I think Christians should just make sure that we use biblical language
to condemn by scripture.
And so you'll often hear people talk about somebody having an affair,
you mean they committed, okay?
I think we have to speak in a way that
makes in the most
sophisticated city maybe the world has ever known, in the most sophisticated.
We
don't
hear that the way they heard it, because again and again.
We have to speak in a way that reminds people that God is a judge.
Sin is exceedingly sad.
I basically agree with what you've said.
I mean, I won't ever use language like that, but we have to make sure.
One of the main points...
So in other words, if you're using the term gay or gay community, you should be very
quick to back up the seriousness of that behavior and not let people think that
this is just another people group like blacks, Italians, and Asians or something.
You have to be very clear that this.
Is a sin, and not only a sin, but it's an unnatural behavior.
Yeah, there are
some of you and living out there, and I point out all the words that are used in scripture to refer to
this sin.
It's an abomination.
It's unnatural.
The very word sodomy connects the sin with...
And just to follow up very quickly, because we are running out of time, and I already know that we have to have you back, because right now we've
only addressed one, two, and five, as far as the seven ways that the church has
failed in this area.
So we'll definitely have to schedule you for a return visit after the program is over today.
But I assume that the difference between using a term like sodomy and an abomination
and unnatural, which are biblical terms, using a term like
the God hates fags group uses, fag or whatever you might want to choose, although it
seems that those involved in the advocacy of homosexuality have adopted
queer for themselves.
They include it in their eye chart of initials, LGBTQ.
The other words are they jump out as being
intentionally cruel, hateful, and juvenile,
perhaps, to use terms like that.
Christians shouldn't be going around using those types of terms, especially when they are they
are trying to bring the gospel to the lost who happen to be involved in that particular sin.
They shouldn't be using the terms like fag and fairy and all that kind of thing.
No, godliness
is not...
...press against people...
...you say godliness is not... ...condemning...
...intentionally demeaning...
...have any homosexuals...
...without how many husbands...
...love he had for her so much so that...
...was
saying
that he
really...
And by the way, Ronald in Eastern Suffolk County, you have also won a free copy of the book that we are addressing
today, The Grace of Shame, Seven Ways the Church Has Failed to Love Homosexuals.
So please give us your full mailing address.
So Cumberland Valley Bible Book Service, cvbbs .com can ship that out
to you in a timely fashion.
Thanks again for contributing an excellent question to our discussion today.
We have somebody closer to your neck of the woods, Pastor Tim.
We have Aaron in Indianapolis, Indiana, who says,.
What a great discussion with many new thoughts, description of soft men, and finally discussion about
the church reclaiming things.
Thank you for talking about the difficult topics.
My question is, How does the church strike a balance between loving sinners no matter what sin?
What I mean is a friend who claims to be a Christian blasts homosexuals on Facebook
while living with her boyfriend out of wedlock.
Each is a sin, but politics causes us to grade sins.
How does Pastor Bailey think we should stop that in the church?
That's interesting because before we were saying it's very problematic to say
all sin is sin because there are different kinds of sins.
There are sins that would not warrant, for instance, a
pastor to be removed from his office because every pastor is a sinner.
So obviously we were not only to elect to church office
perfect men because they don't exist, but at the same time we have to be careful of not being hypocrites.
So I guess that's what really Aaron is talking about, a hypocritical judgment.
Well, Aaron's friend up in Indy, I would just go to the man or woman that's doing that, I think it was a woman,
and just say to her, you're being hypocritical.
Your sin is, and you should say nothing about homosexuality.
It's fornication.
I think that that's what he mentioned.
Yeah, everything gets politicized.
And so if the Supreme Court currently is not approving of abortion, but it's approving of homosexual
marriage or morals,
if the schism
between, we're going to want to jump on the bandwagon of the
point of current controversy, we can't do that.
Our message has
to be
a message.
Two
-time youth
set
aside
and
talk
to them,
preaching
against
it, wickedness
of this,
preaching
partisan
politics.
Well,.
Thank you, Aaron.
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We have RJ in White Plains, New York,
who says, I have heard Chris Arnzen, host of this program in the
past, say that he is not completely opposed to the idea of people being
born with the proclivity of homosexuality because of the doctrine of total depravity,
as we see in Romans 3 and other places.
And even David describes himself as coming from the womb as a liar.
Why would this be wrong to believe in this as a possibility, as long as you don't use it as
an excuse to continue in that lifestyle because you were born that way?
Yes, the listener is correct that I have posed that question.
I haven't 100 % fallen on that side.
But being a Calvinist, I do believe in total depravity.
And especially when you're talking about a reprobate, why would it be impossible for someone to be
born with the proclivity toward that sin?
And again, I have to say it 100 times over, not that we can use that as an excuse
for a person remaining that way or living that way proudly or what
have you, but can't somebody be born with that proclivity, just like David described himself
as being born.
A
liar?
...an
agreement
with
heterosexuals
in
the
ancient
world,
and
don't
act
on
sin,
not just from heterosexualism.
So yes, you can have a sexual desire for the same sex from a very young age.
Maybe they're...in mind.
Chris,
can I
just quickly mention that
they're
talking about deeper, and I'd really recommend that to people who want to know how to witness to...I.
Think it would be very helpful.
Yeah, and the website is...yeah, and the
website is warhornmedia .com, warhornmedia .com.
Thank you very much, RJ and White Plains, and please give us a full mailing address where we can have
cvbbs .com mail you a free copy of Tim Bailey's book, The Grace of Shame.
By the way, Pastor Tim, I never, in my posing the
possibility of a person being born with a proclivity
towards that sin of homosexuality, I never believed that that was a fixed thing,
as if somebody is doomed to that for the rest of their lives, because there are all kinds of things
that people have scientifically had theories about.
Even a higher level of testosterone in men leading to more violent and murderous behavior, that
doesn't mean that that person is doomed to be a murderer or something.
With the blood of Christ, anything can be transformed and made new.
But I want to make sure that before we run out of time...
Yeah, I agree with you, Chris.
And before we run out of time, I want you to have three minutes of uninterrupted time to summarize what you most want etched in the hearts and minds of
our listeners today.
Well, thanks, Chris.
I want us to be careful and to sharpen one another in how we talk and how we think about
homosexuality, because it's so intense today.
We have people getting fired, people getting brought up on charges before, you know, the
human companies of state government,
pressure on this
issue, transsexuality, queer, questioning, that all these things are
sexual minorities and they're equivalent to racial minorities, that there's no
moral content to them.
And so there's, you know, when we go around, this is not
hetero and homosexual orientation and I'm
against conversion.
All these ways are attempts on our
back by not being clear.
And our speaker speaks of
the sins and we
have to be shameful and an abomination.
His use is behind,
you know, to do the heart -heavy lifting and we can go
around making peace for but we have to
guard the way with and doing that guard
grace of shame.
Shame is a have to have Adam and
Eve know their shame after they said God was
merciful to them, that they knew they were naked from
God when they...
Amen.
Well, I want to make sure that our listeners have all of the contact.
Information they need.
First of all, we have the Clear Note Church in Bloomington, Indiana.
That website is clearnotebloomington .com, clearnotebloomington .com.
And again, the website for War Horn Media, where the book
can be purchased, The Grace of Shame, that website is warhornmedia
.com, w -a -r -h -o -r -n -media .com.
And it also has other things that you can view and read and so on.
And I want to thank you so much, Pastor Tim Bailey.
And do you have any other.
Contact information you care to give before we go off the air?
War Horn is the podcast.
I think people will find that helpful.
It builds on the book.
And then Daddy Tried, it's my book on...
Well, I want to thank you again.
I want to thank everybody who listened, especially those who wrote in questions today.
And I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater Savior than you are a sinner.