... Harry S. Truman declared his commitment to civil right

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• Most Christians are unaware of the strong push to
  justify Homosexuality by
  the leaders of our age. (Isa 520-21)

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• (Isaiah 520-21 NKJV) Woe to those who call
  evil good, and good evil Who put darkness for
  light, and light for darkness Who put bitter for
  sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe to those
  who are wise in their own eyes, And prudent in
  their own sight!

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• While living in Lincoln, Nebraska I learned of a
  highly coordinated effort at several
  levels to "re-educate" our society about
  homosexuality.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• While living in Lincoln, Nebraska I learned of a
  highly coordinated effort at several
  levels to "re-educate" our society about
  homosexuality.
• The National Education Association (NEA) had
  powerfully used its funds and influence to push
  the homosexual agenda in the public Schools.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• Some parents I knew who were a part of the
  "Traditional Values Coalition" were publicly
  branded by the state NEA and the local principle
  had orders to be told whenever she arrived on
  school grounds were her own children attended!

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• Some parents I knew who were a part of the
  "Traditional Values Coalition" were publicly
  branded by the state NEA and the local principle
  had orders to be told whenever she arrived on
  school grounds were her own children attended!
• In our own state this year there were many school
  systems that observed a Gay and Lesbian week.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• The forces of government are increasingly
  equating "Gay-rights" with "Civil-rights".

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• Consider the actions of our own president " A
  half-century after President Harry S. Truman
  declared his commitment to civil rights before a
  largely black crowd gathered at the Lincoln
  Memorial, President Clinton last night pledged
  similar solidarity in the battle for equal rights
  for gay and lesbian Americans." - Washington
  Post 11/9/97

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• I received an e-mail today about an impending
  bill that will include ALL sexual orientations.

10
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• There is a bill on the fast track in the U.S.
  Senate ( 909) that would not only criminalize
  free speech but provide elevated protection to
  pedophiles.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• There is a bill on the fast track in the U.S.
  Senate ( 909) that would not only criminalize
  free speech but provide elevated protection to
  pedophiles.
• The bill is euphemistically called The Local Law
  Enforcement Hate Crimes Preven-tion Act.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• I call it The Pedophile Protection Act.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• I call it The Pedophile Protection Act.
• It was exposed as such when an amendment to
  exclude pedophiles from special legal
  protections, offered by Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa,
  was rejected by the Democrats in the House
  Judiciary Committee.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Florida, admitted from the
  House Floor that this bill put 547 forms of
  sexual deviancies listed by the American
  Psychiatric Association, which he referred to as
  all of these philias and fetishes and isms,
  on the same level of elevated protection as race
  ... religion ... gender ... or disability.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, a former appellate
  judge on the House committee, clari-fied further
  ...We just rejected an amendment to including
  pedophilia

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, a former appellate
  judge on the House committee, clari-fied further
  ...We just rejected an amendment to including
  pedophilia
• Boy scouts have been forbidden by the Interior
  department (in the Clinton Administration) from
  helping clean up the
  national state parks because they do not allow
  for homosexual scout leaders!

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• I have in my possession excerpts from a
  government training video where a man
  explains from the Bible that homosexuality is not
  wrong!

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• I have in my possession excerpts from a
  government training video where a man
  explains from the Bible that homosexuality is not
  wrong!
• There are many churches who now say homosexuality
  is not a sin. There are even homosexual
  churches that exist.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• I have in my possession excerpts from a
  government training video where a man
  explains from the Bible that homosexuality is not
  wrong!
• There are many churches who now say homosexuality
  is not a sin. There are even homosexual
  churches that exist.
• What does this mean to the Christian?

20
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• We need to know what the Bible teaches.

21
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• We need to understand that ours is not a
  political battle, but a spiritual one. (Jn 1836)

22
We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• (John 1836 NKJV) Jesus answered, My kingdom
  is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this
  world, My servants would fight, so that I should
  not be delivered to the Jews but now My kingdom
  is not from here.

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• We need to answer the arguments advanced by those
  who justify sin. We need to teach our children
  how to answer these things. (2 Cor 104-5)

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We Are in a Fight that Cannot be Ignored

• (2 Corinthians 104-5 NKJV) For the weapons of
  our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for
  pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down
  arguments and every high thing that exalts itself
  against the knowledge of God, bringing every
  thought into captivity to the obedience of
  Christ,

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• The Old Testament condemned homosexuality.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• The Old Testament condemned homosexuality.
• The cities of Sodom openly practiced
  homosexuality. (Gen. 191 -7)

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Genesis 191-7 NKJV) Now the two angels came
  to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in
  the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to
  meet them, and he bowed himself with his face
  toward the ground.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• 2 And he said, Here now, my lords, please turn
  in to your servants house and spend the night,
  and wash your feet then you may rise early and
  go on your way. And they said, No, but we will
  spend the night in the open square. 3 But he
  insisted strongly so they turned in to him and
  entered his house. Then he made them a feast, and
  baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• 4 Now before they lay down, the men of the
  city, the men of Sodom, both old and young, all
  the people from every quarter, surrounded the
  house. 5 And they called to Lot and said to
  him, Where are the men who came to you tonight?
  Bring them out to us that we may know them
  carnally.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• 6 So Lot went out to them through the doorway,
  shut the door behind him, 7 and said, Please,
  my brethren, do not do so wickedly!

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• God specifically forbid it. (Lev. 1822)

32
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Leviticus 1822 NKJV) You shall not lie with
  a male as with a woman. It is an abomination.

33
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• Homosexuality would receive the death penalty.
  (Lev. 2013)

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Leviticus 2013 NKJV) If a man lies with a
  male as he lies with a woman, both of them have
  committed an abomination. They shall surely be
  put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• The New Testament condemned homosexuality.

36
What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• The acceptance of homosexuality by a culture is
  described in its steps away from God! (Rom.
  126-32)

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Romans 126-32 NKJV) For this reason God gave
  them up to vile passions. For even their women
  exchanged the natural use for what is against
  nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the
  natural use of the woman, burned in their lust
  for one another, men with men committing what is
  shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty
  of their error which was due.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• 28 And even as they did not like to retain God
  in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
  debased mind, to do those things which are not
  fitting 29 being filled with all
  unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness,
  covetousness, maliciousness full of envy,
  murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness they are
  whisperers,

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud,
  boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient
  to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy,
  unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful 32 who,
  knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those
  who practice such things are deserving of death,
  not only do the same but also approve of those
  who practice them.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Rom 126) - against nature (para phusin) vile
  passion (degrading passions of dishonor).

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Rom 126) - against nature (para phusin) vile
  passion (degrading passions of dishonor).
• (Rom 127) - men working unseemliness indecent
  act, shameless act.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Rom 126) - against nature (para phusin) vile
  passion (degrading passions of dishonor).
• (Rom 127) - men working unseemliness indecent
  act, shameless act.
• "Receiving in themselves that recompense of their
  error which was due." This can so vividly be
  seen, among many diseases, ex. AIDS

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Rom 128) - "reprobate mind" (Vine a mind of
  which God cannot approve, and
  which must be rejected by him). NAS "depraved
  mind."

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Rom 128) - "reprobate mind" (Vine a mind of
  which God cannot approve, and
  which must be rejected by him). NAS "depraved
  mind."
• (Rom 132) - "Worthy of death.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Rom 128) - "reprobate mind" (Vine a mind of
  which God cannot approve, and
  which must be rejected by him). NAS "depraved
  mind."
• (Rom 132) - "Worthy of death.
• There is no question what this sin brings! (1
  Cor. 69-10)

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (1 Cor. 69-10) - Do you not know that the
  unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
  Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor
  idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor
  sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor
  drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will
  inherit the kingdom of God.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• Effeminate (malakos Thayer-effeminate. of a
  catamite, a male who submits his body to
  unnatural lewdness).

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• Effeminate (malakos Thayer-effeminate. of a
  catamite, a male who submits his body to
  unnatural lewdness).
• "abusers of themselves with mankind" - denotes
  homosexuality.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• Effeminate (malakos Thayer-effeminate. of a
  catamite, a male who submits his body to
  unnatural lewdness).
• "abusers of themselves with mankind" - denotes
  homosexuality.
• "Be not deceived" - Do not be led astray by
  plausible talk to cover up sin and change it into
  something respectable and acceptable.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• Homosexuality is included with those who are
  "abusers of themselves with men." (1 Tim. 110)

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (1 Timothy 110 NKJV) for fornicators, for
  sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for
  perjurers, and if there is any other thing that
  is contrary to sound doctrine,

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• Homosexuality is fornication (Jude 7).

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• (Jude 17) - as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the
  cities around them in a similar manner to these,
  having given themselves over to sexual immorality
  and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an
  example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

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What does the Bible teach about homosexuality?

• Those who practice any sin cannot go to heaven!

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "The Bible is a reflection of the culture of that
  time. Our culture is now different!

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• Miller begins with a lengthy dismissal of the
  Bible's relevance to the question of marriage in
  the first place.  "Let's try for a minute to take
  the religious conservatives at their word and
  define marriage as the Bible does," Miller
  suggests.  If so, she argues that readers will
  find a confusion of polygamy, strange marital
  practices, and worse.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• She concludes  "Would any contemporary
  heterosexual married couplewho likely woke up on
  their wedding day harboring some optimistic and
  newfangled ideas about gender equality and
  romantic loveturn to the Bible as a how-to
  script?"  She answers, "Of course not, yet the
  religious opponents of gay marriage would have it
  be so."

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• What is "culture"? It is a system of values!

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• What is "culture"? It is a system of values!
• God expects all men to put away the sins of the
  flesh and put on the fruits of the spirit. (Gal
  519-25)

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• (Galatians 519-25 NKJV) Now the works of the
  flesh are evident, which are adultery,
  fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20
  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions,
  jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish
  ambitions, dissensions, heresies,

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and
  the like of which I tell you beforehand, just as
  I also told you in time past, that those who
  practice such things will not inherit the kingdom
  of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love,
  joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness,
  faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control.
  Against such there is no law.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• 24 And those who are Christs have crucified
  the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If
  we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
  Spirit.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• Most people who accept homosexuality do not
  believe in the inspiration of the Bible!

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• Most people who accept homosexuality do not
  believe in the inspiration of the Bible!
• Many are excited about the "Gay-Rights" movement
  because they correctly see an opportunity to
  persecute Christians.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "Homosexuals are born this way. They did not
  choose this lifestyle so it cannot be a sin.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "Homosexuals are born this way. They did not
  choose this lifestyle so it cannot be a sin.
• If they can prove an inborn nature the Bible
  would still tell us to not practice this desire!
  The alcoholic desires to drink even after
  becoming a Christian he simply puts this desire
  away and refuses to act upon it. (Rom 813-14)

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• (Romans 813-14 NKJV) For if you live according
  to the flesh you will die but if by the Spirit
  you put to death the deeds of the body, you will
  live. 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit
  of God, these are sons of God.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• There is no proof that homosexuality is inborn.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "The Bible teaches that homosexuality is right!
  My interpretation is just as good as yours.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "The Bible teaches that homosexuality is right!
  My interpretation is just as good as yours.
• We must examine the scriptures and always be
  ready to test everything we believe.
  (Acts 1711)

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• (Acts 1711 NKJV) These were more fair-minded
  than those in Thessalonica, in that they received
  the word with all readiness, and searched the
  Scriptures daily to find out whether these things
  were so.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• There are those who will wrest the scriptures to
  fulfill their own lusts. (2 Pt 316)

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• (2 Peter 316 NKJV) as also in all his
  epistles, speaking in them of these things, in
  which are some things hard to understand, which
  untaught and unstable people twist to their own
  destruction, as they do also the rest of the
  Scriptures.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "If you deny practicing homosexuals membership in
  your church then you are bigoted and hate-filled
  just like those who hated blacks in the 1950's.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "Since I have been saved by the grace of God you
  must accept me as I am because once I am saved I
  cannot be lost.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "Since I have been saved by the grace of God you
  must accept me as I am because once I am saved I
  cannot be lost.
• The grace of God is not a cover for sin. (2 Pt
  218-19)

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• (2 Peter 218-19 NKJV) For when they speak
  great swelling words of emptiness, they allure
  through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness,
  the ones who have actually escaped from those who
  live in error. 19 While they promise them
  liberty, they themselves are slaves of
  corruption for by whom a person is overcome, by
  him also he is brought into bondage.

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• "Once saved, always saved" is a false doctrine.
  (Gal 54)

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What are the arguments used to justify
homosexuality?

• (Galatians 54 NKJV) You have become estranged
  from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by
  law you have fallen from grace.

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What should we do in this current culture?

• Defend the truth without shame. (Jude 3)

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What should we do in this current culture?

• (Jude 13 NKJV) Beloved, while I was very
  diligent to write to you concerning our common
  salvation, I found it necessary to write to you
  exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith
  which was once for all delivered to the saints.

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What should we do in this current culture?

• The time is coming where our jobs may be at stake.

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What should we do in this current culture?

• We need to know what is right and stand there!

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What should we do in this current culture?

• We need to know what is right and stand there!
• Protect your family from these new "evangelists.

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What should we do in this current culture?

• We need to know what is right and stand there!
• Protect your family from these new "evangelists.
• In school your child has great pressure put upon
  them to accept this lifestyle.

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What should we do in this current culture?

• We need to know what is right and stand there!
• Protect your family from these new "evangelists.
• In school your child has great pressure put upon
  them to accept this lifestyle.
• With this age of "openness" there is a greater
  danger of "recruiting" young
  people by convincing them they are gay.

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What should we do in this current culture?

• Be prepared to show love to those in this error
  with the intent of converting them! (2
  Tim 224-26)

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What should we do in this current culture?

• (2 Timothy 224-26 NKJV) And a servant of the
  Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able
  to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting
  those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will
  grant them repentance, so that they may know the
  truth, 26 and that they may come to their
  senses and escape the snare of the devil, having
  been taken captive by him to do his will.

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What should we do in this current culture?

• Let us not be sidetracked into a political battle
  but rather let us redouble our efforts to preach
  the gospel! (Rom 116-17)

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What should we do in this current culture?

• (Romans 116-17 NKJV) For I am not ashamed of
  the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God
  to salvation for everyone who believes, for the
  Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it
  the righteousness of God is revealed from faith
  to faith as it is written, The just shall live
  by faith.