Max Lucado and Brazilian
Presbyterian Minister Apologize for Their Stances against LGBT Sin
By Julio Severo
Evangelical author and pastor Max Lucado
issued an apology to the LGBT community for his past stances against gay
“marriage.”
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| Max Lucado |
“In 2004 I preached a sermon on the topic
of same-sex marriage. I now see that, in that sermon, I was disrespectful. I
was hurtful,” wrote Lucado, pastor of Oak Hills Church, a
nondenominational Christian church in San Antonio, Texas, in a letter in February 2021.
Lucado wrote that Christians may disagree
about what the Bible says about homosexuality, “but we agree that God’s holy
Word must never be used as a weapon to wound others.”
“To be clear, I believe in the traditional
biblical understanding of marriage, but I also believe in a God of unbounded
grace and love,” he said in his letter. “LGBTQ individuals and LGBTQ families
must be respected and treated with love. They are beloved children of God
because they are made in the image and likeness of God.”
Lucado suggested that just because people
identify themselves as nominal Christians, they become automatically “children
of God.” For him, homosexual “Christians” are in this category.
The problem is that Lucado’s teaching is
in direct conflict with God’s Word, which says,
“To all who did receive him, who believed
in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” (John 1:12 ESV)
All people are born creatures of God,
because they were created by Him. But to be a child of God is not a natural
right. It is an acquired right, a right God grants to people who receive and
believe in Jesus.
What does the Bible say?
“Do you not know that the unrighteous will
not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually
immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor
thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will
inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, you
were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by
the Spirit of our God.” (1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ESV)
The Bible says “men who practice
homosexuality” “will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Yet, Apostle Paul said that some of the
members of the church in Corinth were homosexuals. But after they received and
believed Jesus, they “were washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” That is, they were completely
delivered from homosexuality. They left this sin completely.
The culture in Corinth was so depravedly homosexual
as our current culture, but Paul and other Christians never succumbed to
immoral cultural trends.
Paul never apologized for teaching that
“men who practice homosexuality” “will not inherit the kingdom of God.”
Paul never taught that men who do not
leave homosexuality are children of God.
After Jesus had given a long blessed
message, people, even His own disciples, thought that He had exaggerated.
“When many of his disciples heard it, they
said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?’” (John 6:60 ESV)
Yet, Jesus also never apologized for His
hard words.
Jesus never let the culture dictate His
teaching.
Paul never let the culture dictate His
teaching.
Why are Christians today letting the
culture dictate their teachings and stances?
Christians in the past died as martyrs
because they refused to deny their faith and stances on the Bible.
Today, Christians prefer to apologize
because they do not want to lose their popularity and high-paying jobs.
Milton Ribeiro, the Minister of Education
in Brazil, faced his own challenges, especially because he is also a
Presbyterian minister. In a 2020 interview, he showed concern about homosexual
indoctrination in sex education in the schools. He said that homosexuality “is
not normal. The option that you have as an adult, of being a homosexual, I
respect, but I do not agree.” He added that homosexuals come from “maladjusted
families.”
After massive pressure of the left-wing
press, the minister issued “his firmest apology, ever made publicly, to any and
all people who have been offended by the words spoken.”
On February 25, 2021, Ribeiro had to give
explanation to the Federal Police for his declaration that “homosexuality are
the result of maladjusted families.” Again, he apologized to the Federal Police
for his words against homosexuality.
It is an unimaginable situation the
Federal Police being used to protect homosexuality from criticism. The LGBT
trend is making our society worse than the Soviet Union.
While everybody in the Soviet Union was
forced to worship atheism, in Western “democratic” societies everybody is
forced to worship homosexuality.
If a famous Christian author as Max Lucado
refuses to worship, he loses his fame and popularity.
If a Presbyterian minister refuses to
worship, he loses his post of Minister of Education in Brazil.
By
my own experience, I know that it is not easy to criticize the homosexual sin.
I am the author of the first Brazilian evangelical book against the gay agenda.
For years, I was mocked, sued, threatened and persecuted. Christian lawyers
told me to delete all my articles against homosexuality to avoid prosecution,
but I preferred to leave Brazil, just as Moses left Egypt in a time of
persecution.
Even in foreign lands, as a pilgrim
of God I keep defending the Bible teaching on homosexuality for the Brazilian
public. But in the 1990s, when I warned Brazil that homosexual indoctrination
would reach schools and pastors could be prosecuted for preaching against
homosexuality, I was mocked and treated as a crazy man seeing things impossible
to happen.
Homosexuality is martyring fame,
popularity and posts of Christian leaders who refuse to apologize.
Should Christians apologize? Yes, when
they sin. If a Christian is involved in homosexuality, adultery and other sins,
he should apologize. But to say the truth, even a hard truth for our generation
who loves the homosexual sin, is never a reason to apologize for.
God, the Author of the Bible, never
apologized for condemning homosexuality in the strongest terms. He never
apologized for punishing and destroying Sodom for its sin of sodomy
(homosexuality).
Paul never apologized for defending the
Bible teaching on homosexuality in a culture plagued by homosexual depravities.
Why should Christians today apologize for
sins clearly condemned by God, Jesus and Paul?
With
information from The Christian Post and Estadao.
Portuguese version of this article: Max
Lucado e pastor presbiteriano do Brasil pedem desculpas por suas posturas
contra o pecado LGBT
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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