anita's*thoughts

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

I was in Ponsonby today attending a focus group for work. Hamish picked me up and we grabbed a pizza at a local restaurant. We sat inside and outside by our window were two lesbians eating dinner. We decided to stop by Greenlane Foodtown on the way home for some milk etc and on our way out we walked past a gay couple, a guy about my age with his arm around a guy about my Dad’s age. We went home and watch my fave show The Apprentice and saw the Ministry of Health’s new ad. The ad showed two young teenage boys kissing and the voice over said ‘whoever you have sex with use a condom’.

Homosexuality is offensive and confusing for a lot of Christians. We love all people as Christ does but hate this sin that violates something so precious. While all sin is sin to God there is something in particular that troubles us about this sin. Peter Boyd prayed for our nation on Sunday. A nation that calls evil good and good evil.

Parliament will vote again on Thursday on the second reading on the Civil Unions Bill, yet another piece of legislation that is offends Christians to their very souls. I don’t mean to sound dramatic but to make it legal for women to sell their bodies for sex and gay couples to ‘marry’ is a shocker. While we all take this seriously we must look into our whole lives how we can become complacent about things that should offensive us. Queer Eye and Sex in the City are good examples of this. We can watch these shows and consider the we are agreeing to the fact that it is ok to sleep around outside of marriage and it is cool to be gay cause they are more fashionable. I don’t mean to sound pious – cause the reality is we are all the same- creatures of wrath just washed in blood that isn’t ours. Watch out - the World creeps in were you dont expect it too.

4 Comments:

Hey Anita you rise some good thoughts here. I'd just like to say your dead right about the world creeping in where you don't expect it to. These programs you meintioned are just one of the ways we as christians become used to evil in our country. We see these things and think its no good, but after whatching them for a while we can be lead to think, "oh well its not that bad i supose," or the other famous line, "as long as they keep it to themselves. The fact is they are not keeping iy to themselves, so we must stand up and not become passive to this wickedness. Sam.

By Anonymous, at 11:17 pm, November 30, 2004

To God all sin is sin. To man some sin is worse than others. Lies don't compare well with murder in the human mind.

Understanding this, God made it clear at which end of the scale we are to think of it. In Scripture he uses adultery and homosexuality both in the same sentence as murder.

We in NZ have allowed adultery for ages, we have allowed homosexuals, and we have allowed abortion. Either we take back our morality or we allow the liberal secular satan allied majority to finish up the loose ends on these issues, like this Civil Unions Bill, and then they can move on to the next big monstrosity.

ps. I refuse to comment on facial hair for fear of attack by woman with scissors. ;-)

By Anonymous, at 11:24 pm, November 30, 2004

Yes. Christians need to watch what they watch!

By Scotty, at 7:24 am, December 01, 2004

"Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." (James 1:27)

We shouldn't really be surprised that the world is trying to 'spot' us, to make us lose our purity. So we are to help the people in the world who are having a bit of problems, and we are to keep ourself pure from the world - I was wondering if people had any thoughts on whether we should also be reforming the world? (if so through what means?)
[Anita, I hope you don't mind me using your blog to ask this]

By Nathan, at 1:14 pm, December 01, 2004