Confused Christians

Do you remember Promise Keepers? It was an incredible Christian men’s organization. As the name indicated, it called on men of all races and backgrounds to keep their promises to God, their wives, their children and their country.

Their biggest event was the 1997 “Stand In the Gap” rally in Washington, D.C. -- one of the biggest gatherings ever held in our nation’s capital. My son, Zach, and I attended together, and it was one of the most remarkable things I have ever experienced. 

Over time, Promise Keepers accomplished its goal, and inspired the formation of other groups as it faded away.  Now, Ken Harrison has been working to revive Promise Keepers through small events at churches and Christian venues. Given the breakdown of the family in America, their work is urgently needed. 

Unfortunately, there’s an effort to cancel them. But not by Joe Biden’s Justice Department or radical atheist groups. Shockingly, the opposition is coming from some Christian groups that are apparently ashamed of the Gospel. 

Belmont University, a Christian university in Tennessee, canceled a Promise Keepers event in June. Churches in Tennessee and Texas have also backed out of events. 

Why? Because Promise Keepers believes in the biblical definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman, and they stand against the insane idea that men can become women.

There’s a sickness in our society and that sickness is seeping into some churches, too. 

If you live in any urban area in America, you surely noticed this summer not God’s rainbow, but the LGBTQ “pride” flag on full display outside many churches. 

Recently, a church in Dallas, Texas, held a special service to rally the community. What was the critically important issue? Drag queens. The church was all for them. The congregation recited a pledge committing themselves to celebrating “this divine diversity” and to “lifting up the voices of the LGBTQ+ community.” 

Meanwhile, there are some churches reciting the so-called “Sparkle Creed,” which refers to a “non-binary god” with plural pronouns, claims Jesus had “two dads,” and recognizes the “rainbow spirit.” 

I don’t know what religion this is, but it isn’t Christianity.

Sadly, one of the biggest churches in Georgia is hosting a special conference which appears to be affirming open homosexuality in the church. But Pastor Andy Stanley has made headlines in recent years for studiously avoiding politics because that “divides the church.” 

Many pastors won’t preach sermons on the sanctity of life or the craziness being pushed on children in schools because that’s “divisive” and “politics.” But, somehow, holding a conference affirming the LGBTQ agenda, all in the name of love, of course, isn’t divisive.

Will churches start affirming adulterers next? God made them that way. Why should we stop them from bragging about their sin? What about a group that affirms embezzlers and thieves?