The gay church: satan’s hot new trend
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person–such a man is an idolater–has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God’s wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them. Ephesians 5:6-11
Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
So saddened and angered by this. The people that attend are willfully going to hell. Many are unaware and fully expect this to be a move of “God”. The god that shows up however will only lead them further down the broad path to destruction and they’ll probably fight anyone who preaches against this. The phrase “and their smoke rises forever in the presence of the Lamb and his angels” is horrifying to think of and yet they happily choose this.
I was so bothered after seeing this that I went to the church website. I looked in the “What We Believe” section and this is what I found:
• We believe in God’s purpose for the church at large; to be an agent of change amongst those who are saved and those seeking a rich relationship with God.
•We believe in the absolute Grace given by Christ; that through the shedding of His blood we have eternal life and life with His abundant grace.
•Our ministry stands for Love above all else; we love God and we love people. We receive ALL God’s Children with open hearts, open minds, and open arms.
So it appears to be a little one sided. Nothing about victory over sin and the desires of the flesh through the blood of Christ (1 John 5:4-5) or the consequences of sin (Romans 6:23). It seems to me that they’re just fooling themselves. Lord I pray that their eyes are opened to the truth before it’s too late. All of them!
Ms Tina if you notice they dont use the word gay or homosexuality either. Thats intentional to deceive people into thinking they are a “normal” church.
What grabs me is how this church and its leadership is so shameless in their pictoral display of the Pastor and her First Lady. No shame. No consideration on how this #1-is so wrong and #2-can and will stumble and confuse so many people. But I guess that is par for the course anymore…no shame about anything!
I notice that the subtitle of their advertisement says “… and we want you to be apart of what God is releasing in our midst.” They ironically wrote “apart” instead of “a part”. Apart means to be separated from something. And yes people who fear God and abides by His word should be a part of the sin this church is advocating.
Oops sorry, I meant to say that they should be apart (separated from) from the sin that they’re advocating. You see, even I got confused.
Thanks for pointing that out Matthew! What God is releasing??? How confused can a person be to attribute the work of satan to God? But unsurprisingly, most all of the gay churches do this kinda stuff. They are mimicing the jacked up churches they came out of with all the warbled black church lingo that has no real substance or connection to truth.
Hi Pastor DL!
It’s been a long time since I posted here. In my stats today, someone found my blog through a post you did at your former blog (and also linked to my blog) back in 2008 regarding “Gay Marriage – The Days Of Noah Return.” It is amazing to me how much further America has plunged into the sewer of the radical and immoral “gay” agenda.
If you have time, view the short video where TVC president Andrea Lafferty discusses the mocking spirit outside the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26, 2013.
As the book of Jude forewarns us, there will be some who will escape the White Throne Judgment as they are “pulled out of the fire” of their unrepentant and reprobate hearts. But I would imagine that it is getting more and more difficult because of the brain-dirtying of this generation who have been indoctrinated into believing that homosexual behavior is “OK.”
Keep up the GREAT work you are doing in your ministry! God bless you and have a Happy Resurrection Day celebration! Jesus Lives!
~ Christine
Saw this on the Meet the Pastor section of their website: “C. Denise, aside from being the Pastor and Founder of The Gathering International Worship Center., she also shares her life with her wife Angelica Brooks as they set a standard of love without apology.”
The last line is the clincher. A SS couple calling the one a “wife” and not a partner. That is different. They are just brazen in this sin.
I’ve read the comments from other brothers and sisters, and I have one thing to say, “where is your compassion?” I have struggled with homosexuality for a good part of my life and found the Church to be very unhelpful. I was not shown compassion or even love in my deepest need, just the ‘suggestion’ to marry or ‘just stop that’ finally I left the church of the living God and after many years of searching for some resoluting found it only in Christ, the freedom and healing I so desperately needed, He was faithful. Now that was over twenty years ago and homosexuality has not been a temptation or issue since that time. My point is that the Church of the living God did not and still to this day is not equipt to kmow how to handle this issue, it seems to resort to condemation and not the setting free that Christ promised in Luke 4.18ff. We need to examine this in the light of the Gospel, not get caught up in the politics of the ‘Gay Movement’ remember what it says in I Cor.13 Love never fails. I am not suggesting we compromise what we know to be true, it is still a sin, but Christ died for all sins and He is so able to set all free.
William, can you give some specific examples of what you see in the comments and article as not having compassion? Secondly, What do you make of 1 Cor 5? Would you say the Apostle Paul is not showing compassion? Like you, I am an exhomosexual and we more than anyone should KNOW how dangerous and spiritually deadly it is to affirm someone in a sinful lifestyle. These homosexual clerics are in effect helping people end up in hell? Is that something good or deserving of sympathy? And why should we make exceptions for homosexuality? I’ll be looking forward to reading your responses.
William, what is your suggestion. It’s not enough to give us platitudes. Honestly, I have recently began to give this contemplation.
I haven’t had really had experiences with chasing sex, or pornography or strip clubs, or prostitution.
I have problems in other areas.. like being harsh of tongue, and holding onto grudges, and depression. Those have been things that I have seen God deliver me from.. and continues to heal me.
Why this is interesting to me, is that I have integrity, and I have a lot of trust among the few homosexual people (and the many many hetrosexual immoral people) that I know. And while I know how to speak God’s perfect Word to the hetrosexual, I don’t know what to tell the homosexual ones. Like the others, they are lost sheep and I know that God is able to make them clean – if they are willing.
I don’t know how to approach that. I have began to think that even my own past, say masturbating as in my late teen to early 20yrs (sorry to be explicit) or.. having hetrosexual sex out of wedlock… perhaps letting them know that I was filthy and needed to repent (in greek, “change my motivating drive” and in hebrew, “stop. And turn back onto God’s way”).
I thought perhaps if I show them that I judge myself and see God’s perfect standards.. and everyday, I ask for God to walk with me, ..and how it took me several years to overcome my attitude about various sins.. due to pride .. or ignorance – perhaps that is a way to approach the subject. I don’t know.
It’s not enough to criticize the assembly and say ‘i felt a tone’ … Everyone feels tones that Churchianity is lacking. But feelings can be half truths.
What specifically do you advise ? .. on what to say, do, or teach ?
I am sorry that both you, William, and gcmwatch have been through such a difficult time. I agree with William that we should not be condemning others. Correct me if I am wrong, but condemning comes from Satan, I have heard plenty of condemning voices in my head when I’ve sinned, or even when I haven’t! I am learning to disagree with them now though, and turn to the Truth instead. However Paul does make a distinction about judging, 1 Cor 5;12,13 – he talks about not judging those who are on the outside, i.e unbelievers, but to judge those who are within the Church. I belive this is necessary to prevent us being led astray. But I have another however here – I believe there is a difference between a person who is flouting their sin, basically saying it is not a sin and so calling God a liar, and a person who is admitting their sin/struggle with sin, and genuinely looking/crying out for help. And this is where I think we need to be really careful about our response, as if we get the two muddled, we may cause harm. In reading chapter 5, it seems clear that Paul is talking about people who are flaunting their sin, as he uses phrases such as “puffed up” and “your glorying is not good”. So what really matters is a persons’ attitude about their sin. We all sin, we can’t just stop talking to all other believers! Because that’s not what the Bible says.
I just thought I’d try and clarify it as best I could, as it will help me too! Let’s be careful about judging others, I belive there is always a reason why someone is in the place they are in, even if it seems impossible for us to understand. Deep childhood hurts, for example, cause all kinds of problems and sins. And I reckon more people have these kind of hurts than we might think. The last thing they need is to be further wounded by condemnation from fellow man. I hope I have interpreted the Word correctly, pick me up on any errors, thanks
We can love show compassion and uphold the standard.
This is why in the familiar passage of scripture where the woman is caught in the act of adultery and her accusers wanted to stone her and Jesus said anyone without sin can cast the first stone. None of the woman’s accusers remained and Jesus told her that her sins were forgiven. go and sin no more. Jesus showed love, rebuked the accusers and the act the woman was caught in and upheld the standard of how we should live.
This is so dangerous. These ppl have a form of Godliness, but denying the power thereof. They got love backwards. The bible states to love God first, than love yourself, than love your neighbor. When you fall in love with God, you will love what he loves, and hate what he hates. God hates sin, but he loves the person. They have to begin to love God more than they love themselves, than thats when deliverance can take place.
That is so true Ms Reeda. My question is which bible are they reading and which God are they worshipping because the God I served ones not tolerate sin.
Does not tolerate sin. He is the final and only judge and all we all can do is pray or them
People this all started at the very beginning with Adam and Eve. Humankind is disobedient, defiant, & hard-headed. Catering to the flesh and not to God’s word. That is why we need to keep our minds stayed on Jesus and be prayerful, always asking for forgiveness. This trend is nothing more than taking weaknesses and vices, unwilling to change, intellectualizing and justifying these desires of the flesh, and hiding behind the word of God. This is evil, the devil wants t steal, kill and destroy. And what is being destroyed – the family. SS couples cannot procreate. They make selfish arrangements to “have a baby,” which mocks the family. Knowing that they cannot procreate.
I have been in these churches, they touch on everything except the sins of homosexuality, lesbianism and being efeminate. Homosexuality, fornication, adultery, murder, stealing, etc. they are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG – it’s all sin no matter how you slice it!
1 Corinthians 6:9
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
This is what happens when you “sell out” to your flesh. Looking for love in all the wrong places. Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand. I thank God for total deliverence. They too can be delivered. The issue is do they want to be delivered? I did and was.
How I trully adore and love My savior Jesus Christ.