Gay Marriage: A Pastor's thoughts
" I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married," President Barak Obama As Pastor of a wonderful congregation (www.newhopefree.org), I have been asked numerous times "What do you think of Gay marriage?". I have been lobbied by Godly people who feel strongly for and Godly people who strongly oppose Gay marriage. I have talked with congregants who feel this is the single most important issue of our era, and with those who feel this is merely a distraction in the church's mission. I share that to say that church is not monolithic in its approach to this issue and I recognize that Godly people may respectfully disagree with what I am about to say. From a Biblical perspective, I have written extensively that healthy sexual intimacy is always from a perspective of marriage. Sexual intimacy before marriage or outside of marriage is clearly prohibited in scri...