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Date Posted: 12:24:03 07/27/04 Tue
This is an article from Zion Herald.
Reflection
“Acting Out”
-Anne Robertson
When I listen to the debates swirling around the issue of full inclusion of gays and lesbians in the life of the church, I am confused. I have trouble understanding why, of all the possible things on which the church could be spending its energies, we have chosen this one. War rages, hatreds soar, greed is a way of life, and we have chosen to take a hammer to people for loving and promising faithfulness to someone of the same gender. Good grief. It’s no wonder we’re declining.
But even beyond my general amazement that we seem to have forgotten our real mission, I can’t figure out why the entire Bible and the entire Trinity are not given more weight in the debate. Most specifically, why doesn’t the Holy Spirit figure more prominently in the discussion? I would add that United Methodists have completely abandoned the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, with its consideration of Experience; but, even if we are just staying in the Scripture corner, we are not being thorough in our biblical examination.
Why are we seeking guidance only from Leviticus and Paul on this? Why are we not looking to the Gospel of the Holy Spirit, the book of Acts? I think of Acts 10, where God had to teach Peter that the Levitical laws were not meant to be God’s final word. God gives Peter a vision—a sheet filled with all the stuff Leviticus clearly says a good Jew should avoid. Unclean animals, birds, and reptiles are presented to Peter with God telling Peter to eat them.
Peter, in essence, whips out his Torah and explains to God that God is mistaken. These are unclean, God has already said so, and Peter refuses to eat. God then issues a rebuke to Peter, saying that Peter has no business deciding what is clean and unclean, Leviticus or no. If God says it is clean, then it is. God is the lawmaker and can reverse God’s own decision if God deems it necessary. Three times this scene plays out, and we have no indication that, during the time of the vision, Peter ever agreed to do what God asked.
Source: Zion Herald
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