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Apologetics Class 12/3/2017

Here is the video we watched today in the apologetics class – Homosexuality with Compassion & Clarity – Sean McDowell:

Here is the note-taking form I handed out:

Homosexuality- Compassion and Clarity – Sean McDowell

“I can’t keep living because my life is a living Hell. I can’t die because I will go to Hell” – Christian Teen
Questions for Thought:
1. How would your l_______ change if you had same sex attraction?
2. How would it affect your r____________?
3. How would it affect your f____________?
4. How would it affect your f____________?
Aren’t all sins e___________?
What bad impressions do Christians leave that prevent us from even being h____________?
“Outsiders say our hostility toward gays – not just opposition to homosexual politics and behaviors, but disdain for gay i______________ – has become virtually synonymous with the Christian faith” – David Kinnaman, author of “UnChristian”
“We must obey God rather than men” – Acts 5:29
All sins are not equal, but there is a sense in which sin is equal: any sin can eternally s_____________ us from a loving and Holy God.
5 General Biblical Truths:
1. There is not a single passage in the OT or NT that s____________ homosexuality
2. Until the middle of the 20^th century, not a single Church leader a_____________ homosexuality
3. Every regulation in the Bible assumes m__________-f___________ sex.
4. Every P_____________ or wise saying in the Bible assumes heterosexuality
5. The Ten Commandments assume h________________
3 Passages from the Bible that lay out God’s on marriage/sexuality:
1. Genesis 2:24/Matthew 19:4-6
2. Leviticus 18:22
3. Romans 1:26-27
How do we as a Church respond?
1. Speak with t___________________
2. Do not allow gay j___________ and comments
3. Preach the Gospel: Change is P_____________
4. Be prepared to s______________
“For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil” 1 Peter 3:17