More on baseball

“Think of the left side of Milwaukee’s line now, with CC Sabathia and Prince Fielder… They won’t allow a single sack this season.”

-Jay Crawford on ESPN’s First Take

Words from NT Wright

“We are not justified by faith by believing in justification by faith, we’re justified by faith by believing in Jesus. It is remarkable how many people make belief in justification by faith the thing which divides the church.”

-NT Wright, in a conversation with Jimmy Dunn

I don’t think I really need to explain how this applies to us today. It’s rather obvious.

Hypotheticals and homosexuality

I read something on Dan Kimball’s website this morning that has had me thinking all day. Kimball, talking about the issue of homosexuality in church, raises this question:

If a homosexual couple gets married legally – and then sometimes afterwards this couple studies Scripture and determines that the practice of homosexuality would be considered sin – would the church endorse and recommend that they get divorced, if the same church holds that a couple shouldn’t get divorced unless there was marital unfaithfulness etc. and in this case, they were faithful to each other in their gay marriage.

*This scenario could be if the couple were Christians who interpreted the Scriptures as being pro-gay theologically at first, but then after further study changed their position to see it as sin – or that they weren’t Christians who then became Christian and as they studied the Scriptures they determined it was sin.

Hopefully talking about this hypothetical is not trivializing the subject of homosexuality. I don’t believe it is. Obviously a person could approach this question with assumptions that are different than Kimball’s (which I share) and disengage from the question rather quickly. But for those of us with a viewpoint similar to Kimball’s, this is a great question for us to consider. As people seek Godly wisdom on this question, I’d be interested to learn about the conclusions to which they arrive (as well as the degree of tension between situational and unilateral conclusions). 

Shalom.