11 August 2022
You'll notice that sexual immorality is a common theme here.
1. Recently a lot of Anglican church folks have been meeting and trying to keep their denomination from splitting. They talk in terms of how the divisions are wounding the Body of Christ. For them, holiness means everyone walking in lockstep orthodoxy with church leadership.
In other words, following your convictions is a sin in that mainstream church.
The only thing harmed by division is the human pride of the leadership. They are so totally devoted to professionalism and trying to get the secular world to take them seriously that they cannot bear the idea of people pulling away to seek greater moral purity. They expect the body as a whole to follow the moral drift of the leadership. For the most part, it's the leadership that have moved closer to the secular world that is the real problem. It's no longer any kind of church, just a social pressure group.
2. There's a handful of stories that can be answered really quick: No mixed swimming. Sure, a private pool with immediate family members is probably not a big deal, but public swimming in typical swimwear should never see the mixing of sexes. And I mean that neither sex should even be able to see the other sex so thoroughly exposed under any circumstances.
This was once a common rule with church folks during my childhood, but the feminist revolt finally got around to tearing it down. They never accepted the biblical model of sexual gate-keeping, and the profligate sexual impurity among church girls today is the result. Church girls posting on the Internet images and videos of themselves in typical swimwear is just a symptom.
3. I've had my belly full of folks trying to get me to notice the sorrows of Amy Grant just because she is still a CCM artist. Look, nobody argues too much about her musical talent, but taking CCM money does not make you holy. She's an unrepentant adulteress who married a non-Christian man. It's the old standard "hypergammy" -- trading up for greater Alpha male tingles and committing adultery against her husband.
I don't care about CCM. Some of the music is useful to me, but it's not necessarily Christian. It's just a churchy market, that's all. I wouldn't miss Amy Grant if she disappeared, nor her damned (literally) husband. She is not part of the Christian Covenant family; her current sorrows are no more significant than those of any other pagan out there. The only people for whom we are obliged to care deeply are the ones under the Covenant.
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