To Christian people everywhere;

There is a great fear among Christian people to criticize Homosexuals. To do so is not politically correct in today’s world and the fear is to run the risk of suffering attacks against our own person and character by people inside the church and without. There has been such a successful attempt to justify homosexuals in our world that they are now accepted almost everywhere and that is also beginning to be the case within our “Christian” environments as well. They are now to the point where they parade within many denominational religions, the corridors of the school systems as lovers, where they are allowed to hug up in the hallways, boy with boy and girl with girl. (If you have children in school you know about this).

It is because of this fear among our people that very little teaching is being done that criticizes and condemns homosexuals in our churches. But this void does not go unfilled; the public school system and TV and movies fill the gaps in teaching with our young people and fill their heads full of the message that homosexuals are to be respected and accepted and fellowshipped as normal. And what’s more, when we do teach about this sin we are unsure how we should deal with these people because we are unsure what God has told us to do. The reason we are unsure is because we lack teaching and explanation from respected leadership.

Unless this situation changes we are faced with the homosexual message being accepted with our children and future generations of the church. Have you ever asked yourself how it could be that Sodom and Gomorrah could not have 10 people in those cities that were righteous?  Surely every person there was not a practicing homosexual. Well the reason is that they allowed the homosexual community to turn the minds of everyone else to accept their lifestyle as acceptable and they were just as guilty because they tolerated and endorsed them as acceptable.

Let’s not fear teaching our churches that this mindset and lifestyle is a grievous sin. Someone has to be a watchman here. Unless we cry out a warning we run the risk of being guilty ourselves.

Carl O. Cooper