Monday, April 13, 2020

Will we sacrifice our witness to exercise our rights?

If you truly know me, you know that I love liberty and freedom. I am a separatist to the core. I do not preach politics from the pulpit, only the written Word of God. I believe the government has no right to control churches, nor do I believe the church has a right to control governments. I saw the attached comments on a Facebook post earlier and it helped me confirm what I had been feeling throughout the last few days. It may be our constitutional right to do church as we please, but dare we sacrifice our witness to an unchurched world in the process? In 1 Corinthians 6:12, the Apostle Paul said, “All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be dominated by anything” (ESV). In context, we aren’t exactly sure what Paul was referring to (eating meat sacrificed to idols?), but we get the point. May we dare not use our liberty to cause another to stumble or to become a slave to freedom itself.
Either way, these two persons have lost respect for the Bride of Christ along the way. Church-hurt. Something we as pastors and believers will have to answer for someday. It is paramount we preach Truth, but we must preach Truth and live it out in love. If someone walks out of our church with a “never again” attitude, I pray they will also be able to say that it was the Word of God that offended them and not my self-righteous attitude or opinions. Lord, heal our churches and heal our land. Come, Lord Jesus. Come.

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