Jerusalem Council Responses - Vermont/New Hampshire
Comments:
- Minister to people where they are at
- Need church discipline
- Authority of the Word of God is the only Question
- In history we drift away from the Word then God sends a moment to bring us back Homosexuality is that issue today
- The denomination needs to be open to all people
- Need a divorce of those who are for and against this issue -- so we can move on
- What is our ultimate Truth?
- Our Priorities
- Has the church abdicated it's role in Sexual Education
- Is Scripture unknowable or vague?
- How to apply scriptural standards?
Comments:
- Do the same or something different
- Please everybody or please nobody
- This issue draws energy away from the mission of the Church of Jesus Christ
- What is our view of Scriptures?
- Could division be redemptive?
- Concern for youth and their future
- Standard of righteousness for our leaders both lay and clergy
- What is our ultimate Truth?
- Our Priorities?
- Leadership needs to take a stand on the Word of God to shape our future
- Do we need to stay unified?
- Need to repent -- not give in to sin
- God's Word never changes
- Are there more important matters than this?
- Do not Judge
- Truth defines our tolerance and our unity
- We are Ambassadors for Christ only as we give the Word as it is written
- Difference between homosexual behavior and homosexuality
Comments:
- Tolerance is not a virtue if it supersedes Truth
- Need to see this issue as a minor issue to stay unified
- Sexual integrity needs to be dealt with now for the department of professional ministry to be able to deal with it
- Authority of Scripture is paramount
- Need to effect ABC at the local level
- Need to take action against homosexuality to avoid a split
- Do we leave this up to the local churches?
- Does soul liberty trump scripture?
- Maybe we need associational authority reinstated
- Resolutions only apply to the orginization adopting it
- Are clergy exempt from discipline when engaged in behavior condemned in Scripture?
- How can resolutions be put forward?
- Need a divorce of those who are for or againist this issue so we can move on.