Fellowship versus Followship

[ugmug]

Fellowship versus Followship

I just want to pass along a startling discovery I stumbled upon at a church that I recently attended. This church is typical of the usual 'Big Box' Evangelical Churches where they say that they welcome fellowship but all they offer is a strict adherence to 'followship' where you are judged not on your faithfulness to God's word but a worship of the group's behavior and beliefs.

During the service the pastor talked about love making being a holy and righteous part of the covenant of marriage that God created for man. He inferred that once 'we' allow homosexuals the right to a church marriage that this homosexual relationship now falls under the righteous covenant of marriage and it is no longer a sin but becomes blessed by God.

God help all of us, his faithful, to resist this evil idea from Satan himself!

Now I understand why Satan is so desirous of government promoting homosexual marriages!

God Bless

 

[handy]

I think I would have to disagree with the pastor on this idea. The marriage bed can indeed be defiled. A homosexual relationship is not going to suddenly become "blessed by God" simply because the state grants them a license to marry according to our nations laws.

 

[Obadiah]

He inferred that once 'we' allow homosexuals the right to a church marriage that this homosexual relationship now falls under the righteous covenant of marriage and it is no longer a sin but becomes blessed by God.

W H A T ? ? ?

When I first read that he "inferred" this, I was thinking No, you must have misunderstood. But from what I've been told is being taught in some churches, I have a terrible feeling you might actually have understood him correctly.

 

[Nikki]

I'm sure there are many heterosexual marriages that aren't "blessed by God".

 

[jasonc]

I'm sure there are many heterosexual marriages that aren't "blessed by God".

im sure that is the case. two sinners who get married under the pressure of Christian family likely wouldn't align their marriage to godly values.

 

[Deborah13]

I'm sure there are many heterosexual marriages that aren't "blessed by God".

This is an interesting issue. Some Christians would say that because it is heterosexual it is automatically sanctioned by God.

imo
But from what I see in the old testament that doesn't seem to be the case at all.
If a Hebrew woman married a nonHebrew man she was disqualified from being a member of the people.
In the new testament, we see Paul saying that the saved person sanctifies the children even if they are married to an unsaved person. But at the same time if that unsaved one "is not pleased" to live with them, the woman is released from that marriage bond.
So are all marriages sanctioned by God? I don't think so.
However, I do believe that God can and does bless a marriage for the sake of the saved one.