On Wednesday, five members of the Supreme Court struck down a 1996
decision by the people’s representatives that had limited marriage to
one man and one woman.
We have included for you a number of insightful posts addressing this
issue below, but let me offer 4 brief thoughts of my own by way of
introduction.
1. As one of the articles below says, we as believers must get used to being a “missional minority” rather than a “Christian majority” in our culture.
This is not altogether a bad thing—the church does best in environments
like these. The end result of our culture’s departure from Christianity
will probably not be less actual Christians (i.e. true disciples of
Jesus), but simply the elimination of more cultural Christians. What is
sad is that when any people depart from God’s righteousness, their
society deteriorates. As Proverbs says, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” God uses his church as salt and light in their community (Matt 5:13–16), praying for the peace (shalom)
of our city (Jer 29:7), and pleading with the civil magistrates to
preserve our freedom to be disciples of Jesus in our culture (1 Tim
2:1–4). Continue at J. D. Greear
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