Pride Month

June is LGBTQ Pride Month.

As our local churches squirm their way through the interruption to their beloved "worship services" associated with the quarantine and the serious challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic for their aging congregations,...

...and as they try to make sense of the very sudden shift in the culture connected to the rising passion for racial justice among our pew-sitters' grandchildren and great grandchildren, who are now shouting "black lives matter" when nanna and pap pap have always believed that "all" lives matter,...

...most devotees of clergy/lay driven institutional Christianity are oblivious to the vigorous, and increasingly militant celebration of LGBTQ pride that is taking place all around them.

Living the life of an ambassador of the Kingdom of God that I live, I meet, and interact with, many 16 to 21 year old people regularly.

I make it a goal to get to know these young people. I'm old enough to be their pap pap and, so, it's easy to be very friendly with most of them. It's easy to get to know many of them in a meaningful way. And, as a matter of theological conviction, I do that.

A large portion of my 300+ Facebook friends are in their early twenties or younger. I follow, very carefully, what these people think and do.

You may have no idea how far the LGBTQ way has moved to the center of the culture just in the last twelve months.

Perhaps I'm misinformed, but I think people in our body continue to hold to the historic Christian belief regarding sexual righteousness.

However, I do get that I may be making an unwarranted assumption.

I have seen how quickly some parents have dropped formerly unquestioned biblical teachings about sex and "gender" when a child has "come out."

Anyway, this post will not be a lengthy harangue.

I will only point out that the Church-es of God way is doomed to be irrelevant on this issue because members of the clergy who provide religious products and services and their laity who understand discipleship as contented consumption of those religious products and services will not be up to this challenge. They'll never DO anything meaningful about it...

...and that CGGC-ism, with its walkless radical talk, ain't going to DO a derned thing. In fact, I can't see that the producers of CGGC talk are even talking about this. I can't see any sign of awareness, even among our Big Talkers.

But, a change in the culture is well under way. It's happening at the speed of light.

We must repent. Oh, how we must repent!