40 Days of Purpose Blog

A record of my thoughts and activities while participating in the 40 Days of Purpose program at my church, based on the book The Purpose Driven Life.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Church Marketing Sucks: Gay-Friendly Churches

Maybe we've all been down this path before, but since there is no final answer, here we go again:

Shouldn't gay and lesbians feel most welcomed in the Church? In other words, shouldn't every church be gay-friendly, just like every church should be adulterer-friendly, liar-friendly—in short, sinner-friendly? Me-friendly?

Church Marketing Sucks: Gay-Friendly Churches

One of my fav replies: "my gut feeling is that every movement needs to demonise something, and for many christians the homosexual has become that. our unease with their lifestyle has forced us to legitimise our distance from poor hermeneutic."