Where is that speck?

If the Church is going to be successful in her fight against the militant homosexual movement she is going to have repent of her own sins first.

I do not have the time to list all of our sins, but only a few.

God is displeased with the sexual sin of homosexuality but we can't stop there, we need to back up.

God is also displeased with the heterosexual sins of fornication and adultery.

The evangelical church seems to want to focus on the one, while at times ignoring the other.

High divorce rates do not seem to be addressed or dealt with by church governments.

Unlawful divorces and remarriages...do we hear the evangelical church passing petitions of these around for people to sign, to stand against?

In large mega-churches how do you know what the history of the people are?

It is sort of like going to the movies, a good show but the audience doesn't really need or care to know the others in the crowd. This means that common law marriage can go undetected because one couple looks just like the other.

Where do many of these sins stem from?

I believe that they flow from a misunderstanding of the objectivity of God's covenant.

I have often heard churches talk about how many people became "Christians" at this or that outreach service.

By Christians they mean people who made a "decision" for Jesus and NOT people who "trusted Christ and were baptized into the name of the Triune God".

The Bible teaches us that the husband/wife relationship mirrors or reflects the relationship of Christ and His bride [the church].

In marriage you have the exchange of oaths before God, you have a servant of God [who has God's authority] who proclaims or announces that the two have become one flesh, you have a covenant relationship, its objective and binding on the parties involved.

Before this cermemony, this covenant ritual, if the man and woman have sexual intercourse it is called fornication...it is sin.

After they have gone through the cermemony or ritual the sexual act is blessed by God.

But what if the man says to the woman, "but honey, I do love you, we don't need a piece of paper to prove that I love you".

It is not the declaration of love that makes the sexual relationship right, it is the covenant relationship that God has ordained.

Many people say that they love Jesus, but without them being baptised, this is like the common law marriage.

Many are coming to the marriage feast [Lord's supper] who haven't even entered the marrriage covenant.

Yes, they have declared their love to the Lord [and many do really love Him] but they have never really been married.